Example sentences of "[vb past] that i [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 2 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 7 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 8 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 9 | having problems today cos she 's got the two girls there from school and they 're supposed to go to the school , the doctor , for an examination but whether she realized that I do n't know . |
| 10 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 11 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 12 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
| 13 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 14 | While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb . |
| 15 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 16 | And then , not very long after retirement , I realised that I did n't rally want excitement any more — though perhaps a little bit of the exotic would n't go amiss now and then ! |
| 17 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 18 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 19 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 20 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 21 | I think they noticed that I did not follow their example . |
| 22 | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did . |
| 23 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 24 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |
| 25 | I replied that I did n't think I would be a very good secretary but that one day I would like to run my own gallery . |
| 26 | I figured that I did n't have much of a chance to be the best player in the US , the country being so big . |
| 27 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 28 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 29 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 30 | I decided that I had not come all this way only to indulge in polite conversation . |