Example sentences of "certain that [pron] [vb past] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | However early performers and audiences construed the metaphors or the financial/numerical language , it is fairly certain that they did n't explicitly understand them in terms of Freeman 's image schemas , or as explicable in terms of their bodies . |
| 2 | Settlement ‘ I would have thought that they would have learned from the public ridicule of the last month and made certain that they did n't get up to these things again , ’ he told the Press Association . |
| 3 | ‘ Gareth , ’ said Paul , ‘ are you absolutely certain that you did n't plant the story yourself ? ’ |
| 4 | For the first time in over a month Charles felt certain that he had n't lost interest in sex . |
| 5 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |
| 6 | I 'm certain that he did n't set out to mislead . |
| 7 | J. G. had no scientific degree , but his perceptive knowledge of scientists , their research and the needs of a daily newspaper made certain that he did n't fail any of them . |
| 8 | Gurder was not certain , not entirely certain , that Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) really existed , and Angalo was n't entirely certain that he did n't . |
| 9 | It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax . |