Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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1 | Did n't we notice that her voice really was n't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ? |
2 | We went to breakfast and Mark Cox was sitting there and he asked us ‘ Did n't we know that there was coup in Russia ? ’ and he told us everything . |
3 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
4 | Did n't they realise that mountaineering was a serious business ? |
5 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
6 | ‘ Did n't you mention that someone had asked to see me ? ’ |
7 | ‘ Someone was supposed to have come up to me and said , ‘ Did n't you know that there are many starving people in Ethiopia ? ’ to which I 'm supposed to have said , ‘ Yeah . |
8 | Did n't you know that these were not originally invented to wind yarn on to ? |
9 | Did n't you know that everything you learn , and everything you suffer , will come in useful at some time in your life ? " |
10 | ‘ Did n't you know that Venus holds sway over both of us ? |
11 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
12 | ‘ Did n't you write that awfully clever play The Rate-payer ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’ |
14 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
15 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
16 | Now Edna said , did n't you say that the all the sideboards coming . |
17 | ‘ Did n't I mention that I had a bullet-proof skull ? ’ |
18 | ‘ Did n't I say that letting them learn to read was a bad idea ? |
19 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
20 | Did n't she say that the college was , they were paying the college to ? |
21 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
22 | ‘ Did n't she understand that it might look like she had bought him off with bribery ? ’ the leader asked . |
23 | Did n't he know that flight of ideas was one of the cardinal signs of schizophrenia ? ’ |
24 | Did n't he know that millions of women worked ? |
25 | How perceptive he is , but did n't he know that the BBC had already produced it about two years ago with Frank Finlay and Miriam Karlin ? |
26 | Yeah but did n't he say that he was gon na try and Tory party . |
27 | Why do n't we make that like a rebel fort ? |
28 | Er , you might just say well why do n't we pass that on to the clients , but we do n't . |
29 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
30 | Do n't they know that millions of people are starving in Africa ? |