Example sentences of "she did [not/n't] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 2 | Mrs Hamilton said that she did not discover that she might have a legal action until 1988 . |
| 3 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 4 | Then somehow she was spreadeagled along the seat and he was half-kneeling , half -lying on top of her and suddenly she did not think that what was between her legs was his finger . |
| 5 | Later she explored , and the boat 's possibilities seemed limitless ; she did not think that she could ever tire of it . |
| 6 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) who , if I have understood her words , made it clear that she did not think that it was a very good idea for people below the lower earnings limit to pay small amounts of national insurance . |
| 7 | She did not care that he 'd called her a whore . |
| 8 | Somehow , she did not conceive that the nightmare could continue . |
| 9 | She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds . |
| 10 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 11 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 12 | She did not feel that she could tell McAllister that Mrs Darrell had designs on Dr Neil , and that she , Matey , was not very happy about the idea that Mrs Darrell might become Mrs Cochrane . |
| 13 | She did not mention that no more money would be sent — let Ellen discover that when the monthly money orders did not arrive in the punctual way they always had done . |
| 14 | She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again . |
| 15 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |
| 16 | She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later . |
| 17 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 18 | Anna shut the door again , she did not know that Mena had followed her , and walked round the house and came in by the terrace , a smile on her face . |
| 19 | She did not know that Clare had followed her round and sat watching her . |
| 20 | She did not know that Neil 's anger and disgust with his old love had been fuelled more by her unpleasant reference to McAllister than anything else she had said to him . |
| 21 | She did not know that she gasped her sobs aloud . |
| 22 | She did not notice that a little troubled crease appeared on her mummy 's forehead . |
| 23 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 24 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 25 | She did not imagine that they would ever meet again . |
| 26 | She did not see that if he had had rabbit for dinner it would be a case of ‘ Poor Flopsy Bunnies ’ ’ ( White , 1954 , p.35 ) . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , she did not see that she could leave Northam for ever . |
| 28 | She did not fear that she would lose it , because it was the world — her world , the reality that encased her . |
| 29 | She did not accept that within a more open-ended task , all children could experience success by setting themselves goals which they would work towards accomplishing . |
| 30 | She did not add that it had blood on it , although she knew that too , having just read the forensic report . |