Example sentences of "i do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens if I do not pay UK Income Tax ? |
| 2 | What happens if I do not pay UK income tax ? |
| 3 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 4 | No , I do not believe in the audition system . |
| 5 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 6 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 7 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 8 | I do not . |
| 9 | Be very clear , he wrote : I do not feel that it is time and thought wasted because the end result is less than I had hoped . |
| 10 | Even if the Gallery does not buy it I do not wish to have anything more to do with it . |
| 11 | First , I do not understand how anyone can possibly think that a menu which features one fat-laden course after another — foie gras , creamy soup , fat-wrapped lamb , pan-fried potatoes , cheese and more cream in the mousse — is a well-planned menu . |
| 12 | I do not suffer from a lack of ambition , I simply accept life as it is . ’ |
| 13 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 14 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 15 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |
| 16 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 17 | I do not understand ! |
| 18 | And I do not give you permission to fling yourself at her feet , grab her hands and weep into her palms . |
| 19 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 20 | The forts and barracks have gone up , an iron chain along the Great Glen , an iron ring round the coasts — you have built it for them , you have clamped these fetters on your own wrists , and I do not excuse myself — my first work was mending the roof of the arsenal at Fort Augustus in 1784 . |
| 21 | ‘ If I do not utter a word , I am its master ; once I utter it , I am its slave . ’ |
| 22 | I do not have any children . ’ |
| 23 | I do not take this view , but I do think that there are certain deep assumptions about how the mind-body problem should be addressed which increase its difficulty . |
| 24 | I do not entirely believe the member who said that their traditions were more important than the money . |
| 25 | The known facts about Shakers are carefully set out by June Sprigg and I do not believe her work is a romantic history . |
| 26 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 27 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 28 | As there were 68 joints to be made , and I do not own a mortising machine , I decided on dowels . |
| 29 | I do not know . |
| 30 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |