Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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1 | How do you make sure that everyone does n't speak at the same time ? " |
2 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
3 | It 's just that I du n no I mean |
4 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
5 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
6 | I do n't think that there 's a garage left that I 've not tried . |
7 | that I 've not seen |
8 | I 've been , I 've been through them all and er there 's only one or two that I 've not actually had any contact with actually one way or another . |
9 | Unless there are any other questions that I 've not dealt with yet . |
10 | So erm now I 've talked you for so long that I 've not got time to play this bit about the werewolves at Retford you see |
11 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
12 | In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game . |
13 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
14 | His brother Melvin , er who has another removal firm in York , erm he had a funny experience too that I 've not hac had . |
15 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
16 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
17 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
18 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
19 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
20 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
21 | But it was absolutely clear to me then that I had n't the political antennae , the political flair . |
22 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
25 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
26 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
27 | I did n't look at Bob ; did n't want to see his disapproval , all too wretchedly aware that I had n't done very well . |
28 | How did he know that I had n't slept ? |
29 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
30 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |