Example sentences of "i [vb past] not [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was terrified , I tried not to look at him , I tried pulling my skirt down over my knees . |
| 2 | I tried not to look at anything in between . |
| 3 | I decided not to fly at him . |
| 4 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 5 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 6 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 7 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 8 | The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ . |
| 9 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 10 | When I heard that three had died I did not sleep at night I could n't sleep thinking about them . |
| 11 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 12 | I did not feel at all comfortable . |
| 13 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 14 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 15 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 16 | As long as I did not look at her , Sadie resigned herself to wandering behind me . |
| 17 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |