Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] that i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I do not think that I have fantasticated them , but time always supplies some element of fancy .
2 Suzanne worries over it , she would not approve that I have told you .
3 It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it .
4 I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek .
5 I could not believe that I had got my first job .
6 I do not acknowledge that I have done wrong …
7 Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/
8 I hoped she would not discover that I had told Mr Edgar about her quarrel with Heathcliff .
9 ‘ Just because I do a good job for her business does not mean that I wish to sleep with her . ’
10 Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’
11 So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me .
12 I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority .
13 ‘ I can not deny that I have had my troubles off the park , or that my mind was on other things for a while , but my head is down and I am concentrating on making a contribution to the team once again .
14 which I could n't find today did I not in the actual end approved version does it not say that I 've got the tape and people fixed
15 ‘ I did not say that I intended to leave , ’ his father responded .
16 As Jesus himself says ( Matthew 5:17 ) : ‘ Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets .
17 ‘ I do n't think that I 've made great strides in the game ’ , he comments , ‘ but I 've made steady progress since I turned pro . ’
18 In fact , I do n't think that I 've mentioned anything since March , but I am not sure that I did anything really productive during April .
19 I do n't know that I 've got any ambitions that way although you never know , do you now , what they say there 's many a good tune played on an old fiddle I thought you was going to say old women do n't , older women do n't appeal to me , but what about the one who raped me when I was thirteen ?
20 ‘ About my book , ’ he said , hesitating , ‘ I do n't know that I want to go on with it . ’
21 ‘ I do n't know that I want to play , either . ’
22 I do n't consider that I 've reached my prime .
23 I do n't feel that I have succeeded in mixing with the community as well as I would like to have done .
24 ‘ I do n't feel that I have to gaze at their profiles or anything .
25 Well I 'm still treasurer at the bowls club and I do n't feel that I want to take on two .
26 I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly .
27 Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply .
28 I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’
29 Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings .
30 This does n't mean that I have slopped believing , but only that I believe in my own way .
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