Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [that] i [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 2 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 3 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 4 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 5 | I regret that I do not know at what level the exemption was first introduced . |
| 6 | I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I mean that I do n't think I ought to have them . ’ |
| 8 | I suppose I mean that I do n't think my husband would be a nature poet if he did n't live now , here , in England . |
| 9 | " I mean that I do n't hate him any more . |
| 10 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 11 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 12 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 13 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
| 14 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 15 | While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And then , not very long after retirement , I realised that I did n't rally want excitement any more — though perhaps a little bit of the exotic would n't go amiss now and then ! |
| 18 | ‘ How could I explain that I did n't have the money to go ? |
| 19 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 20 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’ |
| 22 | I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well . |
| 23 | ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’ |
| 24 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 25 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |
| 26 | ( I hope that I have not left anybody behind ! ) |
| 27 | I hope that I have not put him off . |
| 28 | I HOPE that I do n't bump into Jason Donovan backstage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |