Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] not [vb infin] it " in BNC.

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1 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
2 I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it .
3 I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it .
4 She pleaded that she did not do it and her husband 's inconsistencies and contradictions aroused suspicion .
5 The only difference now was that she did not show it .
6 Assuming however that the mother 's claim was not valid , or that she did not make it , the question arises whether the justices ought to consider the care being offered by the grandmother in assessing the threshold condition rather than the care which is actually being provided by the mother .
7 And we have it on the authority of those sitting near her that she did not drink it that evening . ’
8 ‘ Ridley J. has come to the conclusion that in fact no sufficient explanation of it was given to her , and that she did not understand it .
9 854 the question of the wife 's understanding of the promissory note was not addressed and there is no reason to think that she did not understand it .
10 ‘ I tremble at crossing swords with you , ’ said Robert Bossu in the sweetest and most reasonable of voices , his high shoulder leaned at ease against the panelled wall at his back , ‘ but I must observe that she did not allow it to succeed .
11 The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either .
12 It was therefore possible to argue that you did not want it even if you could have it . ’
13 From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’
14 The Treaty of Rome , with the consent of the British people , was given force in this country by our EC Act of 1972 ; Brussels has no power to legislate for us that we did not give it .
15 Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’
16 Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought .
17 Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage .
18 If their view of God is what they say , then it is more surprising that they did not reject it much earlier .
19 Governments which recognised the freedom of former slaves , they argued , had found that they did not abuse it .
20 Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark .
21 The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties .
22 ‘ She did , and Russell was so unhappy that he did not contest it . ’
23 Although I am sure that he did not intend it , it sounded as though my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton , South-West was saying , ’ Never mind the quality , feel the width . ’
24 The impulse was so strong that she could hardly believe that he did not feel it too .
25 And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart .
26 Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home .
27 But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) .
28 Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't
29 In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it .
30 In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it .
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