Example sentences of "that we did not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there .
32 ‘ There is a feeling that we did not get justice off court and the players want to put things right on court , ’ said the Components Bureau coach , Bob Stokes .
33 Note that we did not test this particular part of the utilities .
34 I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag .
35 The only dish that we did not like was fish cooked a la Galego , which seemed to mean boiled and then doused with spicy olive oil .
36 I imagine that it was a bit like driving through a minefield in the war , the fact that we did not hit anybody was a miracle in itself !
37 This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own .
38 And if we can , do we learn anything that we did not know already ?
39 Advertising is certainly a legitimate business , but there is a sense in which its goal is to raise the lust factor to a level where we feel we need something today that we did not know existed yesterday .
40 We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained .
41 A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’
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