Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 32 | When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ? |
| 33 | She did not think he noticed her . |
| 34 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 35 | And I am sorry , but I do not think he loved you , James . |
| 36 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 37 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 38 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 39 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 40 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 41 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 42 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 43 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 44 | Lina 's family will not want her to see me , but I am quite convinced she herself would welcome my presence . |
| 45 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 46 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 47 | We do not want them to know we are coming . ’ |
| 48 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |
| 49 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 50 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
| 51 | I would not want anyone to think we had provided the final word . |
| 52 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 53 | He did not want anybody to see him . |
| 54 | I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me . |
| 55 | But I do not want you to marry me just because your parents wanted it . |
| 56 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 57 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 58 | They 'll just make you do it in here . |
| 59 | History does not relate what steps she used . |
| 60 | Carrie had changed his life and he would somehow make her love him . |