Example sentences of "i [vb past] not [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried not to shout so loud . |
| 2 | I decided not to do so . |
| 3 | I decided not to say so ; it might sound ironic . |
| 4 | After Bill 's chattiness I did not think so . |
| 5 | Indeed , I did not deserve so kind a one , but by this time you have received my last . |
| 6 | I did not visit so often . |
| 7 | This time I did not feel so angry , but I shook my head . |
| 8 | I did not feel so optimistic . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 10 | It looked pretty dull to me , although I did not say so . |
| 11 | I did not say so . |
| 12 | But I did not say so to my students . |
| 13 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 14 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 15 | I had not walked so far for years . |
| 16 | She knew he was thinking : If I had not put so much of myself into this house , perhaps I 'd leave . |