Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] i do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
| 2 | Both Poutsma ( 1923 : 42 ) and Jesperson ( 1940 : 287 ) point out that have is often used with the to infinitive in conditional contexts with would : ( 178 ) I 'd have you to know that I do n't care a penny , madam , for your paltry money . |
| 3 | Would be a , be quite a few calls , but we 'll just maybe have to try and I do n't know what we 'll do . |
| 4 | I desire the reader to remember that I do not make use of the word people for the mere vulgar or mobile , but for the whole community , consisting of clergy , nobility and commons … |
| 5 | 'I 'd tell you the whole bitter story , but you do n't have the time to listen and I do n't have the patience to explain . |
| 6 | Maybe I 'm a bit young to remember but I do n't recall those two playing for Leeds at any time ! |
| 7 | But that 's peanuts compared with what I stand to lose if I do n't get Seawitch to Athens by the fourth . ’ |
| 8 | get myself something to wear if I do n't hurry up and if I do n't hurry up and get something . |
| 9 | He come in , he 's fucking right as rain me come in oh I 'm feeling right got in , sat here for about half an hour quick mad dash , chucked at the fucking shit house murghhh ! the fucking well I wo n't be able to play cos I do n't |
| 10 | Yes , this is what I 've been trying to avoid because I do n't want the bother of advertising and interviewing somebody else . |
| 11 | I 'm tempted to go but I do n't want to for the fool I 'll make out of myself . |
| 12 | War 's been declared and all you can think about , all you can talk about is what you 're going to do if I do n't stop seeing Carrie . ’ |
| 13 | They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do . |
| 14 | I 've been offered the opportunity by er Bob in training er in force have taken this on er the tactical unit have taken it on , the chance of er one day erm assessment or appraisal training , at erm probably at Exeter for those of us that do it and erm I think that perhaps with the the way that the diverse way that our staff 's spread out the proper ways of assessing people which I 've I 've never been shown how to do and I do n't think many of us have . |
| 15 | It 's no good , she thought , I 'm going to burst if I do n't empty myself soon . |
| 16 | I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle . |
| 17 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 18 | It is as bizarre to suppose that I do not have a clear idea of a particular causal circumstance , say the one which gives rise to a query on the console of my computer , when I am unable to enumerate its elements . |
| 19 | To sneer would be to imply that I do n't care about you , Caroline . |
| 20 | ‘ That will have to change if I do n't land a job with much the same salary , and jobs like that do n't exactly grow on trees , you know , particularly when you 're over fifty . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm trying to think but I do n't know what to do . |
| 22 | ‘ And just who dares to say that I do n't look after my son properly ? |
| 23 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 24 | ‘ I was going to say that I do n't know of anybody who could have killed my uncle . ’ |
| 25 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 26 | If I have , e I have to say that I do n't think that the particular version of the inner northern route had its junction with the southern bypass moved to the west . |
| 27 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 28 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 29 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 30 | Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level . |