Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later explained , ‘ I did not think that anyone was going to believe us as a family . |
| 2 | I did not think that anyone would ever see the pictures except the sheep and the swooping ravens . |
| 3 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I welcome the right and learned Gentleman to the Dispatch Box — I did not think that he was going to answer this question as he looked a bit tired sitting on the Bench there . |
| 6 | I did not realise that he was head of the English Department . |
| 7 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 8 | I told him , however , that he would have to provide the list of guests since I did not feel that I could exploit my own list any further . |
| 9 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
| 10 | I mean no disrespect to the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , but , apart from his whinge against my right hon. Friend 's personal qualities , I did not detect that he would do anything fundamentally different were he in my right hon. Friend 's shoes . |
| 11 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 12 | ‘ I did not know that you had bought her a ring today , until we came back , ’ she said . |
| 13 | You know nothing of the world in which you have come to live , and I should have warned you about Rose , only I did not know that you were going out with her until after you had gone , and then , of course , it was too late . ’ |
| 14 | I did not know that my question was so good . |
| 15 | But I did not know that he was Ipuky 's son . ’ |
| 16 | Southerton , writing under a byline , would probably have been able to speak his mind about the general atmosphere , although I did not know that his attitude to bodyline would be . |
| 17 | I did not know that his greatness lies in his learning and not in his office . " |
| 18 | ‘ I did not say that I intended to leave , ’ his father responded . |
| 19 | I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence . |
| 20 | I did not believe that he was likely to be one of my examiners in Finals , and this turned out to be true . |
| 21 | I did not believe that it was a sensible way of making policy . |
| 22 | I used to view the European Community as being an economic and political bloc confronting the East and COMECON , and that is why I did not believe that it was uniting Europe . |
| 23 | I did not believe that there were large savings to be made simply from reducing the size of the rail network . |
| 24 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 25 | Mr. Burgess answered : ‘ My main reason was I did not consider that he was of a sound disposal mind . ’ |
| 26 | I knew that he had been barracked at times , but I did not realize that he was so sensitive … |
| 27 | I did not wonder that it failed to ‘ shake ’ Eliot . |
| 28 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 29 | But I did not foresee that she would run away from us both — that we would both lose her forever . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage , ’ Rowland confesses . |