Example sentences of "that i [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 32 | I had told Ron , who was with me in Rome , that I had n't seen the point in attending the practice , but he had persuaded me that I ought to attend . |
| 33 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 36 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 37 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 38 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 39 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 40 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 41 | The moment was complete when I realised that the action had also cured my arthritis and that I had n't needed the strategically-placed piece of double-sided sticky tape . |
| 42 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 43 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 44 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 45 | I realized , suddenly , that I had n't once seen her properly dressed since my arrival . |
| 46 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 47 | This is an aspect of weaving that I had n't thought about until I read Audrey Palmer 's book ‘ Create with Knitweave ’ . |
| 48 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 49 | Slightly bewildered , I said that I had n't . |
| 50 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 51 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 52 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 53 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 54 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |
| 55 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 56 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 57 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 58 | Of course … except that I had n't noticed this . |
| 59 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 60 | There were two large lumps that I had n't had before , but at least the skull did n't seem to be broken . |