Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I did n't mean that the end of the book was very like your own experience , but I was afraid it might be too close for your comfort . |
| 2 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |
| 3 | I went straight to bed but , of course I did n't know that my uncle was n't home . ’ |
| 4 | Throughout my last chapter I kept on emphasizing that the task of the social anthropologist in the field is not simply to observe the details of customary behaviour but to note how this behaviour serves to " express relationships " . |
| 5 | In my innocence I had not imagined that such Machiavellian schemes could be devised , let alone carried out . |
| 6 | Freud himself did n't think that dreaming preserved sanity — on the contrary , as we shall see in the next chapter , the Freudian view was that the function of dreaming was to allow sleep to continue uninterrupted , despite a number of unacceptable ideas being expressed . |
| 7 | Another would be an analytic approach to data which did not require that there should be linguistic evidence in the data to support analytic claims . |
| 8 | The United States argued that Nicaragua itself had previously represented that it , Nicaragua , had no binding declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) and was estopped from now asserting the validity of its declaration . |
| 9 | When she appeared in her finery at the door of his study he commented unfavourably saying that only people in mourning wore black . |
| 10 | At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 11 | But with the younger erm West Indians I did n't feel that we we we just did n't seem to be able to find an approach . |
| 12 | Back at home I did n't mention that I had barely escaped being branded as a melon thief ; but now , having ridden a bicycle , I realized that I would not be happy until I possessed one of my own . |
| 13 | I could have got away with murder that Saturday night , although under the present circumstances I had better add that I made no attempt to do so . |
| 14 | Unknown to Lévi-Strauss , Sartre himself had already proposed that dialectical understanding itself works along two paths , one of ‘ expansion ’ and one of ‘ compression ’ , which suggests that having separated dialectical from analytical reason , he had then to reintroduce the latter under a new guise . |
| 15 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |
| 16 | Dorcas vaguely recalled an elderly nome who had once decided that he was a teapot , but he 'd changed his mind after a few days . |
| 17 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 18 | Murray was flattered to the depths of his heart by the affection of this special creature ; he was an uncomplicated youth of shallow emotions who did not appreciate that Richard was investing their relationship with far more significance than he was . |
| 19 | Over Jan 's , pity we did n't nick that were n't it ? |
| 20 | Mr Lamont told the other ministers that in speaking of fault lines he had merely meant that the British and German economies were out of phase . |
| 21 | Until his confession he had steadfastly denied that any of his companies had paid bribes . |
| 22 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , because … well , naturally when I took the job I did n't realise that I would come to dislike him so much . |
| 24 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 25 | Reactionary trade union officials who had steadfastly declared that they would not stand on a public platform with revolutionary workers , found themselves caught up in the stream and carried forward to participation in great united front unemployed demonstrations . |
| 26 | Until this moment he had n't remembered that he had actually been here before . |
| 27 | It 's a shame he did n't say that before he asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 28 | His twin seventeen-year-old grand-daughters had just left school and when he had read the rough draft of Sara 's prospectus he had immediately suggested that she enrolled Celia and Rosalind . |
| 29 | In a very Vincent-like move he wrote home to say that he had had to buy two secondhand pairs of trousers and two coats , as well as underwear and shoes . |
| 30 | Of course we did n't realize that these would be erm students from from schools . |