Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] not [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me .
2 My answer to that long intervention is that I did not say that a payroll tax was the same as the selective employment tax .
3 I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe .
4 I stated when the bill came before the house that I did not believe that the Home Secretary intended to fiddle the boundaries , some felt I was being a little generous to the Home Secretary , but in his case er we should always be prepared to understand a little more and condemn a little less .
5 It amazed her that she had not thought that the minute she had met him , or maybe she had but had simply denied it to herself .
6 She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds .
7 Mrs Hamilton said that she did not discover that she might have a legal action until 1988 .
8 I refer the hon. Gentleman to his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) who , if I have understood her words , made it clear that she did not think that it was a very good idea for people below the lower earnings limit to pay small amounts of national insurance .
9 All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing .
10 The group who face the most difficulty getting adequately trained are women doctors , and they made their voices heard at the conference despite the organisers admitting with startling candour that they had not anticipated that this issue would arise .
11 My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning .
12 The reason which they gave to me was that they did not believe that a man with my social background could win a General Election for the Conservative Party at that time in the twentieth century .
13 The affidavit evidence of the defendants is to the effect that they did not understand that executing a further charge was prohibited by the order .
14 Similarly , the Prevention of Terrorism Act requires bankers to prove that they did not know that a client 's funds were serving terrorism .
15 I am happy to accept that they did not know that the payment that they stood entitled to receive was limited by the list size criterion .
16 They argued that they did not claim that the cassettes were genuine .
17 Although a trial judge might exclude evidence on the ground of fairness under s 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the fact that Parliament had incorporated the provisions of s 2(8) into the 1987 Act suggested that it had not felt that the power under the 1984 Act was sufficient to protect a person from being compelled to give evidence .
18 The ANC-affiliated United Democratic Front ( UDF ) said that it did not believe that the calm would last unless there were more comprehensive measures , such as abolition of the hostel system , arrest and prosecution of Inkatha warlords and a weeding out of elements in the security forces intent on destroying the negotiation process .
19 A spokesman for City Sites said that it did not envisage that the sale would lead to a reduction in rental income over the year .
20 He answered that he had not realised that , as a pilot of an aircraft , he needed one .
21 Hank tossed a packet over to him , and he had lit one before he realized that he had not known that his son smoked .
22 Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it .
23 He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning .
24 That is , if the prosecutor proves that the words or material were in fact threatening , abusive or insulting , and if the defendant wishes to assert that he did not realise that this was so , the onus is upon him to raise the issue .
25 If that is so , the defendant can not be convicted if he raises doubts as to whether or not he realised that the person with whom he was dealing was a policeman , or that he did not realise that what he was doing would make the task of the policeman more difficult .
26 In Parmenter the accused confessed to causing injuries to his three-month-old son but said that he did not realise that what he was doing would injure him .
27 There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great .
28 He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation .
29 I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand .
30 He said that he did not think that it was a high priority to ask the Home Secretary to take £40 million out of his budget and put it on to the Secretary of State for Transport 's budget .
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