Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [vb past] not " in BNC.

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1 It would be wrong if I did not correct the inaccuracies that are contained within the letter .
2 I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door .
3 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 .
4 I was nervous because I did not have any friends and I was worried that I would be on my own .
5 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 ! ’
6 There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label .
7 I am sorry if I did not reply .
8 And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect
9 I would find the hon. Lady 's argument more credible if I had not experienced the difficulties of trying to remember , when on Tyneside to talk about Tyneside .
10 It might help if I did , but would still be effective if I did not .
11 ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years .
12 As long as I did not look at her , Sadie resigned herself to wandering behind me .
13 She was upset because I had not been allowed to rest on the drive .
14 The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time .
15 ‘ He is angry because I did not keep my promise to go home early .
16 Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children .
17 In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life .
18 My hon. Friend the Minister of State represents an outer London borough and he would be surprised if I did not at least briefly mention the position in the London borough of Barnet .
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