Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] n't [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course … except that I had n't noticed this . |
| 2 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 3 | ‘ I must admit that I had n't expected such a prompt response to my advertisement . |
| 4 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 5 | Well I you 'll forgive me the disadvantage , I 'm not trying to cop out , but the disadvantage of not having been immediately involved is that I have n't seen that quotation from Michael . |
| 6 | So did the Southernwood which was a feathery blue-green plant — that 's another plant I 've never come across since , although I have to confess that I have n't seen many gardens . |
| 7 | take it from me that I have n't seen one and if there is one I 'd be grateful if somebody on your site would point it out , but to my knowledge no such document has been disclosed . |
| 8 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 9 | Personally , I much prefer the former approach but having said that wo n't pretend for one minute that I have n't received one hell of a lot of advice from people in the past . |
| 10 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 11 | Have always been interested in intelligence , escaped the germy epoch of Freud and am so bored with all lacks of intelletto that I have n't used any discrimination when I have referred to ‘ em … . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm surprised because I 'm aware that I have n't taken many wickets this season , although I do feel I have been bowling well , ’ said Foster . |
| 13 | I 'm dead upset that I have n't had any pornographic mail . |
| 14 | ‘ My difficulty is that I have n't spent 40 years as an umpire or whatever , and there is a tension between people like that and those like me . |
| 15 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 16 | The other thing erm is that I have n't got any leave . |
| 17 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 18 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 19 | She 'd been so preoccupied with first the tragedy , and then her concern for the twins ' welfare , that she had n't given any thought to the future . |
| 20 | Shelley stood , rejoicing that she had n't missed this moment for another week . |
| 21 | As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’ |
| 22 | Something that she had n't known much of , in this past year . |
| 23 | It was obvious that she had n't managed that on their first encounter . |
| 24 | The movement made her feel a little light-headed , and she remembered too late that she had n't had much appetite for those hearty , delicious salads that Mrs Porter had made earlier . |
| 25 | ‘ Apparently Emma and Sophie are fine — bearing up very well — although Mrs Meadows says that she has n't done any more than to tell the children that their parents have had a slight accident . |
| 26 | O=only the the only thing was that you had n't got enough room to display everything that you could stock , is n't it . |
| 27 | ‘ The trouble with you , ’ Doone said with disillusion , looking at the column of negatives , ‘ is that you have n't met enough murderers . ’ |
| 28 | I just wan na be absolutely sure that you have n't made some terribly dramatic changes in your lifestyle which are not justified by what we 've done . |
| 29 | The other thing of course is that you have n't got any choice anyway , because the yen to have children is about as basic as the yen to have sex . |
| 30 | tha that you have n't got some |