Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i [vb base] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
| 2 | Both Poutsma ( 1923 : 42 ) and Jesperson ( 1940 : 287 ) point out that have is often used with the to infinitive in conditional contexts with would : ( 178 ) I 'd have you to know that I do n't care a penny , madam , for your paltry money . |
| 3 | So did the Southernwood which was a feathery blue-green plant — that 's another plant I 've never come across since , although I have to confess that I have n't seen many gardens . |
| 4 | ‘ Then you 'll doubtless be delighted to learn that I have n't cried since the day I decided to go boating on the duck pond at home , only to find when I was halfway across that my rowing-boat was holed . |
| 5 | To sneer would be to imply that I do n't care about you , Caroline . |
| 6 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |
| 7 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 8 | Suffice it to say that I have n't had a single problem since on either machine , and would n't be surprised if David Heron 's problems can be solved by the same process . |
| 9 | That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with . |
| 10 | ‘ And just who dares to say that I do n't look after my son properly ? |
| 11 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 12 | ‘ I was going to say that I do n't know of anybody who could have killed my uncle . ’ |
| 13 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 14 | If I have , e I have to say that I do n't think that the particular version of the inner northern route had its junction with the southern bypass moved to the west . |
| 15 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |