Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here .
2 Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened .
3 Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful !
4 And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy .
5 Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled .
6 She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here .
7 It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago .
8 Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’
9 Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years .
10 I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her .
11 The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days .
12 The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel .
13 Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply .
14 There was a long pause and then , somewhat reluctantly , Cassie said : ‘ I did n't realize that it had n't happened yet .
15 The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built .
16 When he satisfied himself that it had n't , he turned to Larsen .
17 The waiter brought the champagne and thumped it around in a bucket of ice to persuade us that it had n't come out of the refrigerator .
18 I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't
19 That was n't so difficult , was it ? ’ he said , and , when Caroline admitted that it had n't been , he said that in that case , would she please agree to do another private showing in mid-afternoon ?
20 Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass .
21 The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ .
22 The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government .
23 a radiograph of the pieces revealed that it had not been made from just one piece of iron , but from many welded together .
24 Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability .
25 Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand .
26 Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors .
27 Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real .
28 However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ .
29 Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn .
30 This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful .
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