Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 2 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 3 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 4 | Such mishaps were bad omens , and though the townspeople maintained that they did not take the Wheel seriously they were happier when all went according to plan . |
| 5 | The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories . |
| 6 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 7 | Anne agreed , disappointed that he had not suggested meeting her outside the factory where her friends could see him , but happy to meet him anywhere . |
| 8 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 9 | The newspaper had , it reported , contacted some of those whose views the advertisements claimed to express , and found that they had not approved or even been aware of the advertisements . |
| 10 | Then parents found that they did not need to have so many babies . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They found that you do not need drugs to make body cells light up . |
| 14 | and I found that you do not address an architect as Mr Jones , it must be Edward T Jones Esquire . |
| 15 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 16 | When the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major reappeared after five months behind the Sun he found that he had not forgotten the positions of more than 300 stars . |
| 17 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 18 | There must be many people who knew this state of financial insecurity but she found that she did not want to think about them . |
| 19 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 20 | Addressing the Boys ' Brigade that very Sunday , the Rev. Johnston McKay told them of the lady who , surprised by the sum raised for the clock she had given to be sold for church funds , exclaimed that she did not know she had so much to give . |
| 21 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 22 | Truancy within the school day ( by pupils skipping individual lessons ) was not seen as a problem by headteachers ; 14 schools reported that they did not keep period attendance records . |
| 23 | Lovley reported that it has not been determined how the bacteria break down the chemicals , but he speculated that they are converted into carbon dioxide and chloride or fluoride salts . |
| 24 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 25 | He had seen its lines in the spectrum , and realized that they did not correspond to any known substance . |
| 26 | Hank tossed a packet over to him , and he had lit one before he realized that he had not known that his son smoked . |
| 27 | As he waited he realized that he had not felt such keen anticipation and happiness since he had served in the front line at Magdeburg . |
| 28 | However , I soon realized that he did not want their friendship to grow into love . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She had been spared telephoning after all — she realized that she did not even know whom to ask for at the hotel in Bandol . |