Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my innocence I had not imagined that such Machiavellian schemes could be devised , let alone carried out . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 5 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
| 6 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
| 7 | Of course he did not deny that experience does influence the development of some behaviour patterns , and he accordingly divided behaviour patterns into instinctive ( inherited patterns which develop independently of experience ) and learned ( the opposite ) . |
| 8 | ‘ When Florence Nightingale said bluntly that if you overcrowded your soldiers in dirty quarters there would be an outbreak of smallpox , she was snubbed as an ignorant female who did not know that smallpox can be produced only by the importation of its specific microbe , ’ Shaw remarks . |
| 9 | While the Poles appreciated German fears about the threat posed to Central Europe by a rise of Soviet power they did not see that they would be serving Poland 's interests by agreeing to Hitler 's demands . |