Example sentences of "[was/were] that i [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 2 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 3 | That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I had n't the faintest idea what was wrong with them . |
| 4 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 5 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 6 | The first was that I did n't ever want to sound like that . |
| 7 | The other thing , and this was just as important , was that I did n't feel I could play the drums well enough . ’ |
| 8 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 9 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 10 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 11 | Her interpretation of this was that I did n't like him because I was jealous of their relationship . |
| 12 | did was that I did n't know whether to do three sine squared right ? |
| 13 | I asked myself if I minded and the answer was that I did n't . " |
| 14 | " And the beauty of it , " he says now over a cold beer in a Manhattan restaurant , " was that I did n't know any better . |
| 15 | What I was trying to say my Lord was that I did n't know was associated or was associated at that time . |
| 16 | ‘ The difference against Wales was that I did n't have any really long kicks , ’ he replied . |