Example sentences of "[was/were] [that] she do n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 2 | ‘ Heather 's problem was that she did n't feel she belonged , Mr Barnett . |
| 3 | Ruth had totally forgotten the outing and her immediate feeling was that she did n't want to go . |
| 4 | The truth was that she did n't want Sam to be in love : not seriously in love with an older man , and the boy in the bistro was n't really a boy at all , being at least twenty-two . |
| 5 | Not that it mattered , she thought ; the truth was that she did n't give a damn about herself . |
| 6 | And so it was that she did n't hear Andrew come in and enter the sitting-room , there to see his daughter dressed for going out in her wide-skirted jersey dress , her black hair hanging loose about her shoulders , and wearing , of all things , green-lobed earrings . |
| 7 | There would be no more In Love redemption , thought Jay , in fact all she knew was that she did n't know what Love was . |
| 8 | And the worst part was that she did n't know how long she was going to have to stay here . |
| 9 | The reason for this was that she did n't like Mr. Gordon . |
| 10 | Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this . |