Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [that] [pers pn] [verb] 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 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 6 | Well I asked the girl and the she , we sort of sidetracked and when I come off the phone I realized that she had n't said . |
| 7 | Then I realized that he did n't want one to respond , that a response of almost any kind would have interrupted his flow , and the politest thing to do was follow the ADC 's example and just listen . |
| 8 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 9 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 12 | While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She talked about ‘ Debbie 's flat ’ not ‘ our flat ’ so I assumed that they do n't live together . |
| 18 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 19 | I guessed that he did n't intervene in my dispute with Shadwell because he wanted the situation to deteriorate further . |
| 20 | I replied that I did n't think I would be a very good secretary but that one day I would like to run my own gallery . |
| 21 | I was definitely pleased , but vaguely uneasy when I discovered that he did n't have a black rim around his neck . |
| 22 | I figured that I did n't have much of a chance to be the best player in the US , the country being so big . |
| 23 | I decided that I did n't have to go out . |
| 24 | And after that I decided that I did n't want my family . |
| 25 | ‘ This game told me that we need all our good players to be up and playing at their peak , but I felt that we did n't do that tonight . ’ |
| 26 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
| 27 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
| 28 | I meant that I did n't know his name was Verlander . ’ |
| 29 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 30 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |