Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you are , although I did not even imply it . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed a strange request , and although I did not really feel like accepting , he politely insisted . |
| 3 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 4 | Although I did not entirely enjoy my time as a ‘ check knitter ’ , I learned one valuable lesson . |
| 5 | I was married by now , so I did not often see him . |
| 6 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 7 | If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis . |
| 8 | Once again , I felt that if I did not somehow sublimate my pain , I should be irretrievably lost . |
| 9 | How could I say that if I did not really believe God was sovereign when something affected me ? |
| 10 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 11 | It was not as good as I should have wished , partly because I was in a hurry , but also partly because I had not yet learnt — if I was ever to master — the technique of literary criticism . |
| 12 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 13 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 14 | As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth . |
| 15 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |