Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [conj] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether I want to . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know because I said to you oh I had a super view |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to be doing this in ten years ’ time but I certainly believe it is important to plan ahead . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to or not , I just want to know what I 'm supposed to be doing there . ’ |
| 6 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't see that I have to ‘ admit ’ anything , ’ she shot back hotly , stung by his words and struggling once again to contain her temper . |
| 8 | They wo n't hear if I talk to myself ; |
| 9 | You know there 's hockey today , I ca n't go cos I 've to erm go and see Mrs . |
| 10 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 11 | I did n't go because I wanted to be rich . |
| 12 | I would n't write unless I had to . |
| 13 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 14 | Yeah , he wants to buy that bit of land , he said I do n't care if I have to mortgage myself up to the hills he said ! |
| 15 | But having got my way over that , it meant I could n't protest as I wanted to about Frome being put in charge . |
| 16 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |