Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realized that he did n't want one to respond , that a response of almost any kind would have interrupted his flow , and the politest thing to do was follow the ADC 's example and just listen . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 6 | and I found that you do not address an architect as Mr Jones , it must be Edward T Jones Esquire . |
| 7 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 8 | ‘ She talked about ‘ Debbie 's flat ’ not ‘ our flat ’ so I assumed that they do n't live together . |
| 9 | can I finish you were sitting there , I assumed that you did . |
| 10 | I amazed that I do , but I do . ’ |
| 11 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 12 | I guessed that he did n't intervene in my dispute with Shadwell because he wanted the situation to deteriorate further . |
| 13 | I replied that I did n't think I would be a very good secretary but that one day I would like to run my own gallery . |
| 14 | Everything was perfect except that when I came to train experimentally naive monkeys , I discovered that they did not like peanuts . |
| 15 | I discovered that we do not actually hurt people , they allow themselves to be hurt . |
| 16 | I was definitely pleased , but vaguely uneasy when I discovered that he did n't have a black rim around his neck . |
| 17 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 18 | I figured that I did n't have much of a chance to be the best player in the US , the country being so big . |
| 19 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
| 20 | I decided that I did n't have to go out . |
| 21 | And after that I decided that I did n't want my family . |
| 22 | ‘ This game told me that we need all our good players to be up and playing at their peak , but I felt that we did n't do that tonight . ’ |
| 23 | And I felt that they did need some kind of ongoing support . |
| 24 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
| 25 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
| 26 | I meant that I did n't know his name was Verlander . ’ |
| 27 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
| 28 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 29 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 30 | And then I said that they do n't hang about with us enough . |