Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 2 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 3 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 4 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 5 | Says Bartle : ‘ We demonstrated that you do n't need to spend a vast amount of money for advertising to work and be successful . |
| 6 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 7 | Such mishaps were bad omens , and though the townspeople maintained that they did not take the Wheel seriously they were happier when all went according to plan . |
| 8 | In his evidence at the subsequent trial , Paisley maintained that he did this to keep the parade moving and hence diffuse tension . |
| 9 | Harold got more because he sang and told jokes , but my mother maintained that he did n't sing well and that his jokes were blue . |
| 10 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 11 | She only pretended that she did . |
| 12 | Then parents found that they did not need to have so many babies . |
| 13 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 14 | I have always used a magnetic board and marker to follow the chart and found that I did n't even have to look away from it whilst punching , thus speeding up the whole process considerably . |
| 15 | I began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do . |
| 16 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 17 | They found that you do not need drugs to make body cells light up . |
| 18 | and I found that you do not address an architect as Mr Jones , it must be Edward T Jones Esquire . |
| 19 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 20 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 21 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 22 | But she found that she did n't need them any more . |
| 23 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 24 | Yet she found that she did care that Eleanor had used Julius 's Christian name so freely . |
| 25 | There must be many people who knew this state of financial insecurity but she found that she did not want to think about them . |
| 26 | Jenna found that she did n't want to know , in fact she did n't want to know to an almost frantic extent . |
| 27 | She closed her eyes and found that she did n't have the energy to open them again . |
| 28 | Then she found that she did n't have to say a word for , his expression the harshest she had ever seen it , Ven was wasting no further time , but was letting forth with a snarled , ‘ Just who the hell are you ? ’ |
| 29 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 30 | Addressing the Boys ' Brigade that very Sunday , the Rev. Johnston McKay told them of the lady who , surprised by the sum raised for the clock she had given to be sold for church funds , exclaimed that she did not know she had so much to give . |