Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually Aunt Louise would seem to be asleep , or not to realize I was there . |
| 2 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 3 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 4 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
| 5 | I could be , but I do not think I am . |
| 6 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 7 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 8 | I can not do not think I am can be mistaken in my belief that our meeting was also important interesting to you , and that however much you may value your seclusion |
| 9 | In view of the persons who will be present , I do not think I exaggerate . ’ |
| 10 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 11 | But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those ‘ super-apostles ’ . |
| 12 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 13 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 14 | ‘ As leader of the Liberal Party , ’ Steel noted in the extract enclosed , ‘ I do not think I will ever be awarded full marks for either party management or pioneering policies … ‘ |
| 15 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 16 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 17 | Do you not think I would know if he was still alive , especially if he was living here in Beirut ? ’ |
| 18 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 19 | The case really turned on section 78 , as to which the judge had said ‘ whilst accepting the impressive evidence of the doctor , I do not think I would be justified in excluding this confession , ’ adding ‘ I do not think that section 78 really is aimed at , in truth , the circumstances here appertaining . ’ |
| 20 | I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights . |
| 21 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 22 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 23 | I do not think I need say anything about what is known as the three-mile limit . |
| 24 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 25 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 26 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 27 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 30 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |