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

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1 I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames .
2 If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once .
3 I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous .
4 If the term subjection be used in its extreme sense I do not for a moment believe that any such solution exists .
5 Thus I do not for example think that there could be a human person ( which Christians must proclaim ) who stood in a different relationship to God than do all other human beings .
6 I do not for my part think that any assistance at all can be gained from the authorities on section 40 of the Law of Property Act 1925 .
7 If one is then to try and specify the grounds upon which it would be right for the court to intervene I do not for my part find it particularly helpful to speak in terms of special or extraordinary cases as distinct from normal cases .
8 I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance .
9 I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence .
10 I do not for a moment doubt the right and duty of the media to comment on sentences and criticise judges .
11 I do not of course condone those riots , but I can understand them .
12 But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’
13 Because of those changes , I do not in fact any longer agree with Jenkins and Kramarae that white middle-class speakers are taken as the norm in sociolinguistics .
14 I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care .
15 I do not by any means place all my faith in so-called Urtext editions , but it is worth mentioning that the Lea Pocket Scores of Beethoven 's works were reprints of the nineteenth-century Breitkopf und Härtel collection edition .
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