Example sentences of "i do not [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Now you see I do n't think that you can say I 'm all against national war but , but you 're in favour of a violent revolution
2 Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting
3 No I 'd I 'd I do n't I do n't believe that that 's the case erm
4 I do not expect that every teacher and every pupil should adopt the role of the popularizing author or the television-style simplifier of the abstruse .
5 I do not expect that this matter will be resolved immediately but I would suggest that significant progress has been made recently .
6 I must apologise if I repeat some of the points already made — I do not expect that I shall , except perhaps in my introduction .
7 I do not expect that in the short-term we will see our industry producing 200,000 new houses a year , but I do expect that Wimpey Homes will take an increasing market share of a more stable total market .
8 ‘ Having said of the poet in The Use of Poetry that ‘ I do not mean that he should meddle with the tasks of the theologian , the preacher , the economist , the sociologist or anybody else ’ , that was just what Eliot went on to do .
9 By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence .
10 By this , I do not mean that the animal uses neurones , whereas the computer uses transistors .
11 The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around .
12 I do not mean that they do not differentiate between dog and man , only that we have become integrated into their already existing , instinctive mental-behavioural patterns .
13 After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines .
14 I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind .
15 As a former minister of justice in Sweden remarked , ‘ I do not mean that it is wrong to ‘ humanize ’ the stay in prison — but a cage is still a cage , even if gold-plated' ( Ward 1979 ) .
16 By this I do not mean that the question of criteria is unimportant , or that the distinction remains meaningful even if there are no ontological objects at all to which it might be applied .
17 I do not mean that Lily suddenly lost all reserve .
18 When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect .
19 Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions .
20 I do not mean that a self-conscious conventionalist would ignore statutes and precedents altogether once it was controversial what force these should be given .
21 Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan .
22 Be very clear , he wrote : I do not feel that it is time and thought wasted because the end result is less than I had hoped .
23 He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay .
24 I do not feel that their quality is really the quality I am seeking here to define ’ .
25 MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude .
26 I do not feel that I myself am at all psychic and I rarely dream — at least to know clearly on awakening what I have dreamed ; yet I have had in my life two dreams of foreboding .
27 In order to do so I do not feel that it is necessary to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God in the sense of demonstrating with mathematical certainty that He exists .
28 On the other hand , I do not feel that all children need necessarily play all the games or join in all the activities .
29 There are , in fact several others but , for various reasons which I shall attempt to explain , I do not feel that they are always quite as effective — or indeed as safe — as the use of the hypnotic state .
30 I do not feel that any harm will come to those people who experience spontaneous regression in such a way , as any group involved in the higher levels of meditation should be under the control of a qualified and experienced teacher or leader who will be on hand to control the situation and to help should the pupil find himself in emotional difficulty .
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