Example sentences of "[is] [conj] i [vb base] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 2 | ‘ My difficulty is that I have n't spent 40 years as an umpire or whatever , and there is a tension between people like that and those like me . |
| 3 | I 'm anti clique and what I want to do is open every opportunity and every door , my hesitation in talking to you , is that I have n't figured out how to open all the doors . ’ |
| 4 | She carried her sandwich over to join him , saying : ‘ My excuse for being down here is that I have n't a moment to spare . |
| 5 | ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’ |
| 6 | The only thing that I 've just thought about actually is window wh in the me on the measurement side rather than anything else is that I have n't Because we 've just had those windows replaced , I have n't finished decorating around the top . |
| 7 | Well I you 'll forgive me the disadvantage , I 'm not trying to cop out , but the disadvantage of not having been immediately involved is that I have n't seen that quotation from Michael . |
| 8 | The only reason that I 'm enjoying Neighbours again at the moment is that I have n't seen it for month and I 'm trying to work out which characters have changed , which characters are getting married to which other ones . |
| 9 | The other thing erm is that I have n't got any leave . |
| 10 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 11 | The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap . |
| 12 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 13 | Marcus , now solemn , replied , ‘ One answer is that I do n't know what happened . |
| 14 | All I hope is that I do n't end up in an office again . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The only reason I do n't punch you , ’ I said , ‘ is that I do n't want to come down to your level . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 17 | ‘ Nick , ’ he continued with a tone of wry honesty in his voice , ‘ there are some mighty clever people who say I could be President of the United States three years from now , but what no one seems to realise is that I do n't care about that . |
| 18 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 19 | The difference between us is that I do n't like this boxing business — and he still loves it , even now . |
| 20 | My reservation is that I do n't think the game could sustain it . |
| 21 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 22 | ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’ |
| 23 | All I 'd say is that I do n't quite agree with Stuart 's description of that summer with Oliver . |
| 24 | The most amusing part of all this is that I do n't have a lover . ’ |
| 25 | is that I do n't want him so |
| 26 | If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married . |
| 27 | My answer to that is that I do n't feel that my job is to do PR . |
| 28 | The other is that I do n't wish any harm to come to Miss Coleman and she may be safer where she is until they say she 's free to go . ’ |
| 29 | But part of that problem is that I do n't think the course tutors do perhaps as much as they might , I mean they do nowhere near as much as Shirley does |
| 30 | ‘ The answer to your question is that I do n't know . |