Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A friend of yours called Bunny rang last night and told you not to forget that you 're playing at Christopher 's place this morning , ’ said Doogie , then nodded to himself , pleased that he 'd remembered his lines . |
| 2 | I was being utterly foolish ; my duty was to stay on , do A-levels , and go on to Oxford or Cambridge ( which took an extra term ) ; the local grammar school was not good enough to fulfil this latter purpose and if I went there , I would only be throwing my education away ; and , besides , did I not realise that , in the face of difficulties , one should never give up , but struggle on and thus establish a superior strength of character ? |
| 3 | ‘ Did I not say that he was a good secretary ? ’ |
| 4 | Did you not think that your brother might be coming north soon ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did you or did you not say that the purpose of my presence here this evening was to give you information about my work ? ’ |
| 6 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 7 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 8 | Well let me put it plainly , did you or did you not know that there were two children or three children indeed in that flat ? |
| 9 | The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ? |
| 10 | Did she not think that such grieving as she had showed was somehow too much for any memory to bear ? |
| 11 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 12 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
| 13 | Did they not say that these buses did not pick up at Norwood Gardens did n't they ? |
| 14 | But did they not realize that the God of Israel was a jealous God ? |
| 15 | Did he not know that 33 per cent of married women were going out to work , and that did n't mean they were competing to do Mrs Griffiths-Jones ’ dishes ? |
| 16 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 17 | It would have helped , perhaps , had she not known that Odette , in her place , would have given up everything and anything had , in fact , already several times done so — for love . |
| 18 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |