Example sentences of "and [subord] i [vb past] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a strange request , and although I did not really feel like accepting , he politely insisted . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ A director asked me if I was a gardener and when I said not , he said it was ostentatious . |
| 10 | He stared into my eyes , challenging me to defy him , and when I did not move he looked back to Ellen . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |