Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] that [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | she said cos she were talking , she knew tape were still running and she were pretending to say that she did n't say I could do it but she did |
| 2 | What you would like to find , of course , is just one fuel tank because you think Andropulos is going to claim that he did n't abandon ship because he thought another fuel tank was about to go and he did n't want his precious passengers splashing about in a sea of blazing fuel oil which would , of course , also have destroyed the rubber dinghies . ’ |
| 3 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 4 | Me , I do n't speak clothes language at all and am beginning to wish that I did . |
| 5 | Actually , she was beginning to decide that she did n't like being called Linda at all . |
| 6 | ‘ But people did n't like living the way the merchant wanted them to ; most mums and dads would n't serve their children rotten food , and hated having to pretend that they did . |
| 7 | I thought that Wilko giving him the number 2 shirt this season was a positive sign , but I 'm starting to think that he did it out of loyalty rather than in expectation of a comeback . |
| 8 | We must remember that in 1600 , when Galileo was at Padua , the Inquisition had burned Giordano Bruno to death for daring to say that he did not believe in transubstantiation of bread into body and wine into the blood of Christ at the Eucharist . |