Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that [pers pn] had n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments . |
| 2 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 3 | Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen . |
| 4 | The following day Charlie 's section of ten began to wish that he had n't spent the previous fourteen years of his life visiting the early morning market . |
| 5 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 6 | He needed to feel that he had n't been rejected . |
| 7 | ‘ I was never given the details , but Mum did remark that you had n't had an easy time . ’ |
| 8 | She knew that , too , but preferred to imply that she had n't seen the files . |
| 9 | To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here . |
| 10 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |