Example sentences of "that i [verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 2 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 3 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 4 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 7 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 8 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 12 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 13 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 14 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 15 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 16 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 17 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 18 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 19 | I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much . |
| 20 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 21 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 22 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 23 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 24 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 25 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 26 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 27 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 28 | But if , say , they use £ 10-worth of it right away , £10-worth three weeks later , and save the final £10-worth until they 've paid off the check ‘ so that I do n't owe anyone ’ , the true rate of interest works out at about 400 per cent . |
| 29 | It 's not that I do n't wann it . |
| 30 | You should be glad that I do n't give you false looks or smiles . |