Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [not/n't] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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1 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
2 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
3 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
4 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Because , so gradually that she had n't noticed it , the blue had faded from her sight . |
8 | I told her + she said that she had n't realised it was so bad . |
9 | It had seemed right in that split second ; now she wished with all her heart that she had n't done it . |
10 | And the best of everything , Ronni found herself thinking , though wishing with all her heart that she had n't thought it . |
11 | Yet I remember a woman who , only a few days ago , swore just as vehemently that she had n't stolen it . ’ |
12 | But erm they did let her know that she had n't got it instead of making her wait the four weeks or whatever it was |
13 | But she pretended to herself that she had not seen it , or that she had misinterpreted it . |
14 | ‘ But I feel annoyed that she had not thought it all through . |
15 | It was just what Lady Merchiston had said that very first night , but she had been so appalled that she had not taken it in . |
16 | One moment he had McAllister in his arms , soft and willing , making relatively innocent love to her , and while her response had been gentle , rather than passionate — which was to be expected — there had been nothing to show that she had not welcomed it . |
17 | ‘ I told him you were someone who was too used to getting his own way , and probably still dumbstruck that you had n't got it . |
18 | My right hon. Friend said that we had inflation licked in a way that we had not had it licked for years . |
19 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But she , watching him , was surprised that he had n't seen it for himself . |
22 | She had snapped at him again , and this time , remarkably , she admitted that he had n't deserved it . |
23 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
24 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |
25 | Alexei was shouting something , and he quickened his pace so that if it was abuse or a challenge , he would be able to pretend that he had not heard it . |
26 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
27 | It was held that he had not used it within s.12(1) . |