Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school .
2 Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the
3 Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ .
4 to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it !
5 Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’
6 I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before .
7 So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ?
8 I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day .
9 ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him .
10 That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers .
11 Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before .
12 When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva !
13 Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement .
14 However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents .
15 It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us .
16 But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already .
17 We stood together in the entrance hall of the theatre where the show is produced , but I have to confess that I did n't recognize him .
18 Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ?
19 Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union .
20 That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore .
21 ‘ In the end she had to realise she could n't manipulate me — that I did n't love her and never had in the true sense of the word .
22 I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening .
23 The other thing , and this was just as important , was that I did n't feel I could play the drums well enough . ’
24 The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it .
25 ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage .
26 All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’
27 And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it .
28 ‘ Because I made it crystal-clear , right from the start , that I did n't want you here , complicating my life .
29 Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on .
30 and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have .
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