Example sentences of "[that] i did n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was offered a cleaning job that I did n't much like the look of so I left quietly before the final curtain . |
| 2 | I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening . |
| 3 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 4 | I also told Sam that I did n't think the main Benskin 's board would approve the switch to management . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I felt I was doing everything I could to nourish and protect the baby and I was so sure about the rightness of it all that I did n't want a scan . |
| 6 | I had begun to feel that ill that I did n't care , but I was back riding out three lots three weeks after the op . ’ |
| 7 | Everybody sitting around me in the dark knew something that I did n't know , because they were real Catholics and I was only pretending . |
| 8 | I thought the Sex stuff was a bit weird but not so weird that I did n't want to get involved with it . |
| 9 | I 'm just sorry that I did n't give it to you sooner . |
| 10 | — I told the Warden that I did n't want to go to no hospital but he never listened . |
| 11 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
| 12 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 13 | I decided then that I did n't want to be a martyr , and since then I have n't been near a hairdresser 's . |
| 14 | The first was that I did n't ever want to sound like that . |
| 15 | It was because I had my blinds closed that I did n't get hurt . ’ |
| 16 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 17 | But that was a matter of choice ; there were some people I did n't like , and many more that I did n't even know . |
| 18 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 19 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 20 | I explained at length that I did n't think this was such a good idea . |
| 21 | The other thing , and this was just as important , was that I did n't feel I could play the drums well enough . ’ |
| 22 | I have to say that I did n't see them in their homes prior to their being admitted at all . |
| 23 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 24 | I said that I did n't care for it . |
| 25 | As films for private cameras were in very short supply — what was n't ? — I went along to him to be recorded for posterity , although being gloomily aware that I did n't photograph very well . |
| 26 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 27 | At the time my athletic naivete was such that I did n't even know what a Director of Coaching was . |
| 28 | I told him that I did n't really see the point in him talking to Frank and me separately . |
| 29 | So while it would clearly be an exaggeration to say that I did n't enjoy the experience at all , my main preoccupation was to get it over . |
| 30 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |