Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [vb past] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , again asking God 's forgiveness , she said that there was no God but God , and the trouble was that Westerners did n't fellow His instructions or live by His law . |
| 2 | He reckoned that gentlemen did n't have such experiences . |
| 3 | Tomlinson ( 1984 ) showed that Caribbean parents wanted schools to focus on basic skills , discipline and equal opportunities in examinations and that Muslim parents felt that schools did n't attempt to recognise their cultural and religious values . |
| 4 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 5 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 6 | The problem stems from the rule , introduced last year , which said that non-taxpayers did n't have to pay tax on bank or building society interest . |
| 7 | " Let's say that matters had n't gone quite right with you , I mean personal matters , would you be able to find words to say exactly what was wrong ? " |
| 8 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 9 | She was always surprised that things did n't fall on her from the sky more often , considering how much was up there these days . |
| 10 | But the advantage of the book was that things did n't go wrong , he could control his existence , predict , re-write history . |
| 11 | I knew that men did n't enjoy talk about emotion . |
| 12 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 13 | That filmmakers did n't feel hamstrung by the need to defer to the MOI reflects their own desire to ‘ do their bit ’ . |