Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] that [pron] do n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 2 | Suzanne Gibson , you mentioned earlier that you did n't like to use the word ‘ policing ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nigel remarked gloomily that he did n't suppose it would make the programmes any better , but in a way it did . |
| 5 | She swallowed so that she did n't sound as if she was shell-shocked . |
| 6 | I decided then that I did n't want to be a martyr , and since then I have n't been near a hairdresser 's . |
| 7 | I think I knew already that she did n't take it seriously . |
| 8 | She felt sometimes that he did n't know how spirited she could be , and this would certainly have shown him ! |
| 9 | Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward . |
| 10 | I learned then that one did n't ask questions : fortunately , books and girl friends were later available . |
| 11 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 12 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 13 | His sons said later that he did n't know how to . ’ |
| 14 | Prune said dismally that she did n't think it was right to stand between a man and his freedom . |
| 15 | Susie said quietly that she did n't know what she wanted — she had come because Peter had asked her to . |
| 16 | ‘ But Bill Mishkin : shouts Howard , ‘ said specifically that it does n't have to be all sex and violence . ’ |