Example sentences of "i did not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I felt sure the iron chain belonged to my convict , but I did not think he had attacked my sister . |
| 32 | I am sorry to say I did not think about dear , good Joe at all . |
| 33 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 34 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 35 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 36 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 37 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 38 | I did not think that anyone would ever see the pictures except the sheep and the swooping ravens . |
| 39 | ‘ In truth , ’ Suragai said , ‘ I did not think of you at all . |
| 40 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 41 | I did not think my remarks were particularly snide ; I thought they were straightforward and factual . |
| 42 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 43 | ‘ Lucien , I did not think you 'd mind sharing with me . ’ |
| 44 | At that time I did not think of other people , and what the creature could do to them . |
| 45 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 46 | ( I did not think it politic to express my reservations . ) |
| 47 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 48 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
| 49 | I welcome the right and learned Gentleman to the Dispatch Box — I did not think that he was going to answer this question as he looked a bit tired sitting on the Bench there . |
| 50 | That was accepting that the scheme , to which I did not think that reference had been made , might have been applied . |
| 51 | ‘ He was off balance and I did not think it was a penalty . ’ |
| 52 | I did not think you would be here so promptly . ’ |
| 53 | Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it . |
| 54 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 55 | I did not think this fellow would survive very long , he was what I call one of my " oncers " . |
| 56 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 57 | It was a fair result , because I did not think either side did enough to win . ’ |
| 58 | I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London . |
| 59 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 60 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |