Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Elsie I did not really believe that but my heart was pounding I can tell you when they pulled that net in . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I did not fully understand that the usefulness of the machine was limited by its memory capacity and the extent to which not having a hard disk would limit my son 's use of the machine . |
| 3 | I had not yet learnt that a German is not necessarily angry because he is shouting , and so was surprised when he added in a gentle cooing voice : |
| 4 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 5 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 6 | The small Year Niner , who did not even realise that there were taps in room 19 , never mind streams , is a little interested by this offer but explains that her Mum never lets her drink the water at school and always provides her with a carton of fruit juice which keeps her going through the day . |
| 7 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 8 | And , so utterly immersed was she in this strange blue and green land that was not feeling strange any more , that she did not even notice that she was weighing sorcery against steel chains and seriously considering the likely outcome . |
| 9 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 10 | She had not even known that Westerns were a genre of their own ; it was exciting news to her . |
| 11 | We did so not because we did not want money spent on community care , but because we did not necessarily believe that a one-track policy was the best way to ensure the ideal form of care . |
| 12 | They did not always think that it was fair . |
| 13 | They did not necessarily believe that employing such consultants was more cost-effective than in-house methods , just quicker and easier for an overseas branch . |
| 14 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 15 | The jury … found that Constable Laurie was not actuated by malice or direct motive , but had actually been over-zealous ; that he had no reasonable and probable ground for believing that Roche 's house was used for betting , and that he did not honestly believe that he made bets with plaintiff . |
| 16 | He did not even consider that she might hold the contrary viewpoint . |
| 17 | He did not even know that most of the Scottish host had already cast off everything that weighed it down , and taken to flight , acknowledging the truth of this meeting . |
| 18 | Hartington confided that he did not really believe that prostitution could ever be eliminated . |
| 19 | It did not also say that Mr Major was yet much of a Prime Minister . |
| 20 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 21 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 22 | I recorded all this on audio cassette ; when the session was over , I played the tape to the astonished Clive who had been so relaxed when hypnotized that he had not even realized that his stammer had temporarily disappeared . |
| 23 | Lexandro snatched his hand away — as though he had not even known that he had gripped his neighbour . |
| 24 | The GMC could not act because he had not specifically stated that he was a registered medical practitioner . |
| 25 | ‘ Because he had not fully realized that suspicion would still follow him , and now it would be suspicion of murder . |