Example sentences of "[coord] i do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't often get big sizes in them & I do n't think they did boys ' sizes in Dr. Martens — when they did , some girls wore them . |
| 2 | I 've forgotten when you said you 're going to Ottawa but if that 's really soon & I do n't hear from you before then , have a great time , I hope the meetings are short & the pints are big ! |
| 3 | The real reason is I am frightened what folk will say , or I do not want to give up this particular habit of mine . |
| 4 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 5 | Or I do n't think I want that new pair of jeans . |
| 6 | Or I do n't think so anyhow , we 'd 've nailed it together for him for nothing and |
| 7 | He put down the tray on the floor , and brought out her cap from the pocket in his coat into which he had stuffed it , saying , however , ‘ Let go your hair or I do n't return it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I command , or I do n't go . |
| 9 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 10 | I , even as a friend and a colleague of the staff notice it strongly in little points of racism , all the time constantly there , it gets beyond a joke , I 've lost friends in the school or I do n't associate with certain members of staff purely because of the constant jibing which eventually gets beyond a joke . |
| 11 | I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’ |
| 12 | I mean , it could have very easily gone from there to everybody following a different path — going away from rock'n'roll and getting into jazz , or I do n't know what . |
| 13 | I wanted to go into their clubs because erm I used to the , the Co-op , the dresses were a bit frumpy and er whether it was just er me , or I do n't know . |
| 14 | playroom , or I do n't know . |
| 15 | Erm and had he had he patented it or I do n't know about exactly the timing , he might have made himself an absolute fortune . |
| 16 | Well it er it will be wood but whether it 's covered over whether it 's wood grain or whether it 's white or I do n't know . |
| 17 | He never cared for me nor I do n't care for him . |
| 18 | I suppose routines and me do n't go together . |
| 19 | After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . |
| 20 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 21 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 22 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 23 | Ferguson said : ‘ It will be a very tight game and I do not expect the Russians to be too adventurous . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , it is cold and I do not want it . |
| 25 | It is my home and I do not want to leave it . ’ |
| 26 | Very well , I will tell you what you ask me , and I do not want to know why you ask it . ’ |
| 27 | And I replied , ‘ Anastasiya Pavlovna , you have valued these things wrongly , and I do not want to nor can I take advantage of your ignorance ’ . |
| 28 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 29 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 30 | This is a very serious matter the election to Labour 's shadow cabinet and I do not want to believe that men would deliberately spoil their vote . |