Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 2 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 3 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 4 | And they did not know that the portion which ebbed , never to flow again , made its way to an account in Hertford town , where Sir George Beador also banked . |
| 5 | And he did not say that , even if they 'd wished to finish the play with his understudy , they could n't , because Alex Household had run out of the theatre immediately after the shooting . |
| 6 | This was that his dad did not say please come back and he did not say that he loved him . |
| 7 | He explained his predicament to the librarian but was told that the book was due to be pulped and it did not matter that he was the author . |
| 8 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 9 | But I did not foresee that she would run away from us both — that we would both lose her forever . ’ |
| 10 | But I did not know that he was Ipuky 's son . ’ |
| 11 | I knew that he had been barracked at times , but I did not realize that he was so sensitive … |
| 12 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 13 | But she did not realize that although she had broken an accepted social rule , she had done nothing against nature . |
| 14 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 15 | The ultimate goal was to have the potential unlocked , but they did not think that AEA was ready for that . |
| 16 | But they did not realise that they were making errors ; the subjects were convinced that hypnosis had actually helped them to remember the poem accurately . |
| 17 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 18 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 19 | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too . |
| 20 | But he did not feel that she looked upon their amorous exchanges as more than innocent dalliance . |
| 21 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 22 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 23 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 24 | But he did not disagree that it was a life of tiny incidents , of often petty crime and indiscretion , of being an integral part of the community . |
| 25 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 26 | He believed that induced abortion was an outrage against women 's health when performed in inadequate conditions ' but he did not believe that it should be made legal . |
| 27 | C. Wright Mills saw professionals as increasingly becoming the servants of the rich and powerful , but he did not believe that the individual professionals themselves were losing their power and influence . |
| 28 | He hoped that the government would set an example to the nation by inaugurating a period of change , but he did not believe that the estates of the realm should be given extensive political rights or that the power of the tsar should be dramatically reduced . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State hoped that qualified members of the teaching staff would pursue research that would contribute to the ‘ better performance of their teaching duties ’ , but he did not envisage that ‘ in the ordinary way it will be necessary for members of the academic staff to devote the whole or most of their time to research ’ . |
| 30 | But it did not follow that we could now relax , least of all in Britain . |