Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [vb past] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did he know that I had n't slept ? |
| 2 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
| 3 | What did they know that I did n't ? |
| 4 | Before I was in the band if I saw that something was happening that I did n't like I 'd say nothing and go along with it . |
| 5 | Every now and then Mazzin would run his hands over me , checking that I had n't somehow ripped off the bindings and was n't about to attack him . |
| 6 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 7 | ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 9 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 10 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 11 | I have always used a magnetic board and marker to follow the chart and found that I did n't even have to look away from it whilst punching , thus speeding up the whole process considerably . |
| 12 | This is an aspect of weaving that I had n't thought about until I read Audrey Palmer 's book ‘ Create with Knitweave ’ . |
| 13 | No , it do n't count cos I did n't have that you cheat ! |
| 14 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 15 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |
| 16 | Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't . |
| 17 | That was the method that we used and I did n't I never heard I did n't hear of dermatitis or anything until well twenty five years afterwards . |
| 18 | I simply stopped because I did n't have anything more to say at the time . |
| 19 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 20 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 21 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 22 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 23 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 24 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
| 25 | You 'd much prefer that I did n't . ’ |
| 26 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 27 | While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb . |
| 28 | And then , not very long after retirement , I realised that I did n't rally want excitement any more — though perhaps a little bit of the exotic would n't go amiss now and then ! |
| 29 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 30 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |