Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i [vb past] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 3 | He went on to say that if I did not return I would be making myself voluntarily homeless and would never be re-housed . |
| 4 | Once again , I felt that if I did not somehow sublimate my pain , I should be irretrievably lost . |
| 5 | How could I say that if I did not really believe God was sovereign when something affected me ? |
| 6 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 7 | I was certain , although I could not have said why , that if I did not answer correctly this might well be the end . |
| 8 | I knew that if I did not act , things were set so that we would be annihilated with no time for questions or replies . |
| 9 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 10 | ‘ My weight was 14st 4lb , and Walter said that if I did not lose a stone while Rangers were at their pre-season training camp in Italy he would sell me and keep Chris . ’ |
| 11 | It seemed a strange request , and although I did not really feel like accepting , he politely insisted . |
| 12 | I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home , and although I did not want to , I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights . |
| 13 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
| 14 | A number of mourners were quite abusive after the service and if I had not found the funeral so moving I would of asked one or two to step into the vestry . |
| 15 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 16 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 17 | Nothing was as before because he was there and if I did not persevere with my patronising offers of involvement it was because my confusion was worsening , the patch on my spirit growing . |
| 18 | My function was to select and train the Pathfinders , I was given the choice of what I claim was the best and if I did not pick the best . |
| 19 | ‘ A director asked me if I was a gardener and when I said not , he said it was ostentatious . |
| 20 | He stared into my eyes , challenging me to defy him , and when I did not move he looked back to Ellen . |
| 21 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 22 | There was a tapered garden on a hill , before those houses in a row , and though I did not understand reincarnation , I knew , he told me , about a narrow road smelling sweetly of petrol and roast potatoes , and though I 'd never been , Chock had been , it was only across the street but I could n't see it , he could see it , he told me so , and pointed to the ornate roof across the street , at the chimneys springing from a platform like stalks of green marble , the roof framed by edges intricately ribbed like steeples or the currents of the sea . |
| 23 | Perhaps they wish to share their grief , but if I did not know Uncle Ted , then it becomes less easy to sympathise . |
| 24 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 25 | I became a socialist there because while I did not agree with everything said by the Marxists I met and with whom I became friendly , they gave me a language for understanding the painful separations of class . |
| 26 | For while I did not know , there was still some hope . |
| 27 | Billingsley rephrased his insolent question as though I had not understood the first version . |
| 28 | ‘ Werry busy , sir , ’ Bonefish went on as though I had not spoken . |
| 29 | As though I did not exist ; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies . |
| 30 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |