Example sentences of "i did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did not conduct field research in Nigeria , I visited that country in 1975 , 1978 and 1981 . |
| 2 | I did not cleave to their affectation that man 's essential role is to endure the sufferings of a senseless existence until death provides the bounty of eternal life . |
| 3 | I did not think much of the CPRS blunderbuss which seemed to be aimed firmly at the Government 's feet . |
| 4 | But I did not think at the time to ask what they were , or their significance . |
| 5 | I did not think you thought such things . |
| 6 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 7 | I did not think to emulate Mr Gladstone , who is reputed to have put tea in a stone ‘ pig ’ and then drunk it after the chill had been taken off the sheets . |
| 8 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 9 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 10 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 11 | I did not think we could invade this year . |
| 12 | I did not think it a good book , but I shall always be grateful to it . |
| 13 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 14 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 15 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 16 | She later explained , ‘ I did not think that anyone was going to believe us as a family . |
| 17 | Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children . |
| 18 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 19 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 20 | Mark : I was in a relationship from about 1981 to 1984 and , in a sense , I did not think AIDS affected me very greatly and it was not very high in my consciousness . |
| 21 | After Bill 's chattiness I did not think so . |
| 22 | ‘ I am thrilled , ’ said Marcelle , ‘ I did not think it would be as easy as this to make friends with an English gentleman . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did not think about Suzy at the time' |
| 24 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 25 | ‘ … I did not think it would come so quickly , ’ he told Tom Jones on 4 November . |
| 26 | I did not think he was capable of making a will . |
| 27 | At first , I did not think about my father . |
| 28 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 29 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 30 | This I found strange since , to my innocent mind , I did not think that he could possibly have received an indication that a peerage was awaiting him . |