Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had not [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything .
2 I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much .
3 ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime .
4 She entered her room , but , as reality started to creep in , she suddenly realised that she had n't said anything more to him about that interview .
5 She pulled the zip of her bag shut and glanced around the room , checking that she had n't forgotten anything she would need .
6 Rushing around the apartment like a madwoman , she 'd hastily thrown some clothes into a case — and she could only pray that she had n't forgotten anything vital .
7 She had been so worried that she had not given one thought to the fact that she was here in her nightdress with Felipe standing looking down at her .
8 There was only one crumb of comfort ; she was very glad that she had not said anything about it to Connor .
9 The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship .
10 However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more .
11 A cocky 12-year-old in an expensive Goretex jacket , Kevin claims that he went to the boy 's home and was told by his father that he had not killed anyone .
12 Tolkien himself insisted that he had not intended one ; and finding one need not be the ultimate necessity for the critic , since after all political messages add nothing to Tom Bombadil , or the Ents , or the Riders of Rohan , or the entrelacements , or most of the things discussed in this chapter and the ones around it .
13 Brooke 's Cabinet colleague R. A. Butler , on the other hand , took a rather more robust view — confiding to the BBC 's Director General , Sir Hugh Greene , that he had not enjoyed anything on television so much for years .
14 It was the last of his nightly chores and he looked around once more to make certain that he had not forgotten anything before going up to the room where his young wife was resting .
15 His main problem , however , was that he had not told anyone of his trip , and his predicament went unnoticed .
16 With this remarkable period of intensive work behind him , Miller again stressed in the Preface that he had not advanced anything but what he had found fully convincing in his own experience .
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