Example sentences of "[vb past] that i [verb] n't " 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 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 . |
| 4 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 5 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 11 | While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I decided that I did n't have to go out . |
| 21 | And after that I decided that I did n't want my family . |
| 22 | I was n't a bound apprentice , as such , I did n't have to er it meant that I did n't have to stay with them . |
| 23 | I did n't relish this : not least because it meant that I did n't break my silence until the cheese course . |
| 24 | I meant that I did n't know his name was Verlander . ’ |
| 25 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
| 26 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
| 27 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 28 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 29 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 30 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |