Example sentences of "what i [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or what I du n no . |
| 2 | I know what I 've said and what I 've not said . |
| 3 | Both our stomachs were set ; a tiny trickle of blood on the sheet confirmed what I had not noticed : that I was no longer a virgin . |
| 4 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 5 | What I had n't considered was that she was much bigger than me and that I was n't strong enough to keep both her and the bicycle upright : inevitably she lost her balance and fell heavily on the road with me and the bicycle on top of her . |
| 6 | ‘ What I had n't considered , ’ he said softly , ‘ what had never occurred to me , was that I might fall in love with you . ’ |
| 7 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |
| 8 | What I have not yet seen in the UK — but I can hardly wait — is the yellow form , which is bright yellow with orange in caudal and dorsal , and blue facial markings . |
| 9 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 10 | ‘ What I have n't told them , ’ he said , glancing again at the journalists , ‘ is that the released girl had a message to deliver and did n't deliver it . |
| 11 | But what I have n't |
| 12 | from what I have n't thought of |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I have n't done in five years : please myself . |
| 14 | What I have n't told you yet is the beginning . |
| 15 | It seems everything I get in here , Gateways I 've got ta get some fish paste cos I do n't know what I 've got and what I have n't that 's it in in Cos I wan na defrost mine . |
| 16 | Oh I know what I have n't given you , your Christmas card . |
| 17 | Oh I know what I have n't done , I think I 've forgotten to the lock the . |
| 18 | That 's what I have n't , have a sweetie |
| 19 | What I have n't done and I ought to because of the erm the way that this discussion has to unfold , I ought to say that pure few sentences about why should there be a strategic sites policy at all and erm I ought to put that on the record although it 's pretty well trailed in all the paper work . |
| 20 | Well d' ya know what I have n't to your place yet , the , fireplace . |
| 21 | stew where I come from is carrots , er turnips , potatoes and meat , I tell you what I have n't had , I think I 'll have a change , I think I 'll have some instead of mince for a change |
| 22 | What I did n't discover until recently was that it provides a bonus for organic gardeners . |
| 23 | What I did n't realise was that her holiday started the day after she 'd had dinner with me , she was going to Italy to look at churches with her beloved son . |
| 24 | What I did n't know was how to stop . |
| 25 | What I did n't understand was why I did n't feel happy walking down the street afterwards . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't lose what I did n't have , ’ complained Blunset , scribbling on his piece of paper . |
| 27 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 28 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 29 | What I did n't know then was the amount of work Niki had put into not only creating , testing and developing that car , but also dragging an unwilling and divided racing team in his wake . |
| 30 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |