Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 While Wasps could relax and enjoy their Goldington Road romp , Bedford learned nothing that they did not know already .
2 ‘ This place tells us nothing that we do not already know , ’ said Holmes .
3 The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know .
4 The Russians were determined to remove every last item of its inventory , down to the lavatory brushes and the steel tracks on which the dockyard trains ran : indeed it was a miracle to me that they did not demand the cobblestones as well .
5 He also told the group and me that we did not do anything right .
6 My experience tells me that we do not all have all the necessary skills to do all these jobs well — it is often a hit and miss affair , with much poor practice .
7 But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment .
8 It seems to me that we have not a very consistent to this .
9 It was clear to me that we dared not and could not use money from the Department .
10 ‘ It seemed to me that it did not please you greatly when you first tasted it . ’
11 Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not .
12 She had never farmed before , and she told me that it did not come easy .
13 But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world .
14 But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already .
15 Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner .
16 But Mr Frankland 's next words showed me that I did not need to worry .
17 ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . )
18 She told me that she did not quite know where to begin .
19 Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful .
20 I can only recall one occasion when he expressed a quiet boast ; he took delight in telling me that he did not have one paper qualification to his name .
21 Such interventions into men 's lives are proof to me that He has not abandoned Southern Africa .
22 ‘ It frightened me that you had not told me .
23 Thank you for informing me that you do not wish to pursue your initial interest in the above Group .
24 We should be talking with them and going out of our way to assure them that we do not wish to engage in a price war .
25 Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case .
26 McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents .
27 Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six .
28 It suddenly occurred to them that he had not moved a muscle since they came in .
29 He told them that he did not like the company they were keeping — — presumably the DHAC — but he did participate .
30 I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 .
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