Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 4 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 5 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 6 | He really liked Chicken Thallium and he wanted people to know that he did . |
| 7 | In GEC 's Patent , the hearing officer held that the initial onus fell on the employer to establish that he did not benefit from obtaining a patent . |
| 8 | However , it is only fair to comment that he did place the lives of two of his most valuable NCOs in jeopardy as well as that of an officer whom he could ill afford to lose . |
| 9 | They were soulless little beings , numerous and uniform , no more than a commercial product bred to a standard , and Reynolds was slightly disturbed to find that they did n't evoke any feeling of sympathy from him . |
| 10 | ‘ The woman was disgusted to find that we did not have a microwave oven for her to polish , and she has a doctor 's certificate to say she can not bend down . |
| 11 | But a final word of caution : venturis are temperamental , and to enclose yours within a blockwork wall , only to find that it did n't work properly , would be frustrating . |
| 12 | Suddenly she was surprised that she could talk about Ian White without regret ; surprised to find that it did n't hurt any more . |
| 13 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |
| 14 | I just do n't want you having to face the pater only to find that she did n't mean half she said . |
| 15 | If on the other hand you specify the languages in advance , you may be leaving out a language group in which there are people who want to train that you did not know of . |
| 16 | The next time it rang he was so absorbed in the problem of getting the pistol to work that he did not notice it ; nor the next time either . |
| 17 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 18 | And now , despite the fact that he 'd held her in his arms , it needed little imagination to guess that he did n't quite trust her . |
| 19 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 20 | It is an error to rewrite history to pretend that they did . |
| 21 | ‘ But people did n't like living the way the merchant wanted them to ; most mums and dads would n't serve their children rotten food , and hated having to pretend that they did . |
| 22 | And if they all spied on each other all the time the great thing , the only thing , which would , could , make life tolerable was to pretend that they did n't . |
| 23 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 24 | And if Feargal wanted to pretend that she did n't exist , well , who the hell cared ? |
| 25 | Sensations running wild , Shelley put her arms round him , holding him close , unable to pretend that she did n't want him . |
| 26 | It seemed much easier to sit and do nothing , to pretend that he did n't exist , to empty your mind of feelings so that you felt nothing , nothing at all … . |
| 27 | Even I can see that Mr Kinnock knows nothing about economics ; as little as did Sir Alec Douglas-Home , who at least never had the temerity to pretend that he did . |
| 28 | The banks , threatened with the loss of many lucrative transactions ( and with expensive computer networks to maintain ) were not co-operating with the authorities , who talked of sending the police round to see that they did . |
| 29 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 30 | It may also have been reassuring to US audiences , while America was being condemned world-wide for its barbaric acts in Vietnam , to see that they did not have the monopoly on violence , which could even be found in an English village . |