Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [that] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually understood what the Hon. and learned Gentleman said , which is unusual , although I do not think that it contributed much to the debate . |
| 2 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 3 | Putting both the police and headmen under the control of government agents did not ensure that they worked together . |
| 4 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 5 | In fairness to the LTA , in the particular circumstances of the time , I do not believe that they had very much option . |
| 6 | He did not understand that she felt so shrivelled and drained , and all thought of sexual relations was abhorrent to her — she was not a fit partner , and shrank from his attentions with loathing . |
| 7 | EVEN Arsenal , who carried the distinction back to London , would not claim that they played well enough in Glasgow last night to be the undisputed champions of anywhere , no matter the vainglorious subtitle given to this friendly . |
| 8 | EVEN Arsenal , who carried the distinction back to London , would not claim that they played well enough in Glasgow last night to be the undisputed champions of anywhere , no matter the vainglorious subtitle given to this friendly . |
| 9 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 10 | The way Matthew treats the Marcan source does not suggest that he knew more about the events concerned because he was an Apostle . |
| 11 | Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place . |
| 12 | This implies that the exiles enjoyed a certain status in his court , but need not mean that he envisaged actively espousing their cause , or had become dissatisfied about Emma 's union with Cnut . |
| 13 | Iago could not recall that he had ever truly noticed her until that moment . |
| 14 | Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’ |
| 15 | By then the subject-matter had enthralled me , and I shall not say that I felt more loving . |
| 16 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 17 | The Marshal could recall no hard and fast rule about it but he could n't think that he had ever seen the pipers during Lent . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember that we did actually . |
| 19 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 20 | He , he did n't realize that I had more stacked in the other room ready to come out |
| 21 | New friends in London , on the other hand , could n't believe that we had actually volunteered for hardship duty in Britain . |
| 22 | She could n't believe that it had all stopped , the misery , the anguish , the self-recrimination . |
| 23 | She could n't believe that she had actually thought him human occasionally . |
| 24 | The irrational thought almost occurs that Shakespeare could n't have been that smart if he did n't realise that he had here a performer who can turn sows ' ears into silk purses , and silk purses into live butterflies . |
| 25 | Back at home I did n't mention that I had barely escaped being branded as a melon thief ; but now , having ridden a bicycle , I realized that I would not be happy until I possessed one of my own . |
| 26 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 27 | He did n't add that he had too , and Throgmorton knew it . |
| 28 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 29 | I could n't say that I felt very well for that was n't quite true , but I certainly no longer felt ill . |
| 30 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |