Example sentences of "i [verb] not [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 2 | I have n't got the time nor the energy , I mean not so much |
| 3 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 4 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 5 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |
| 6 | Though I believe not yet culpable . |
| 7 | Further comment relating to the method included the ‘ … spotty , speckled effect — which in some ways I find not particularly satisfactory … a little difficult to enjoy ’ , and the paint which is sometimes ‘ dragged on ’ but also often ‘ dragged and spread in such a way that there 's some sort of movement ’ . |
| 8 | Riding through the French countryside burgeoning with corn , barley , vines , fruit and vegetables , I felt not only replete myself but part of plenty . |
| 9 | I felt not only miserable , but strangely scared , as though the pass above me was in itself a terrifying manifestation of dark imaginings , like the entrance gate to the place where the dead wait in limbo . |
| 10 | You , you , do n't he said , I 'll down to you , I said I do n't bleeding first ! |
| 11 | I do n't anyway this is just one of the highlights of what has been two marvellous days at the Mackeson meeting sponsored of course by Whitbread and the big race today is the fifty thousand pound Mackeson Gold Cup confirming fifteen runners over two and a half miles . |
| 12 | Funny the things you remember and I do n't probably true the other way round too if I care to mention things . |
| 13 | God I do n't this broken , this broke ! |
| 14 | Now , I do n't how many of you are parents , eighty five of you thought your parents did a good job , fifteen did n't . |
| 15 | I do n't how many of you have seen or heard reference to the recent Which report about estates and managing that . |
| 16 | It just occurred to me that I do n't how many children Mr and Mrs Thomas had , but the only one who 's remembered is Dylan . |
| 17 | But I do n't how much that compassion and love for fellow people goes beyond his wife to the congregation . |
| 18 | Er , costing for parallel , repeat jobs , that 's been dealt with by Simon erm , Client contact record I think that 's now been assimilated into new procedures yes we have just talked about that er sub- contracting you have probably dealt with that , although we have n't discussed it yes er , list of procedure owners I have prepared and reissued it , I do n't how wide they have circulated it , it was meant to go into the Quality Manual , and the Quality Manual is not being re-circulated until March time . |
| 19 | I do n't know why I do n't how that works |
| 20 | I do n't how blooming I do n't even know how the blooming gears work ! |
| 21 | Ooh I do n't how old Margaret is fifty two I think . |
| 22 | And er , if and when it 's published , there will be millions of words , I mean there are now , and I do n't how large it is now , it 's impossible to tell how large , erm , but just a couple of years , for example , amounts to over a quarter of a million words , so if you run that back to nineteen sixty nine , you see it is going to be one of the largest books ever written . |
| 23 | Well I think er I think , well I think you have to have , I mean I do n't really parental investment and stuff like that gestation period . |
| 24 | Well I think not so much about when Hastings was there . |
| 25 | I think not as four other unsolicited accounts verified my experience . |
| 26 | I did not so much as flick a duster around the papers . |
| 27 | I did n't here that . |
| 28 | I did n't even bloody taste it ! |
| 29 | I did n't even same as they say going green or anything like that . |
| 30 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |