Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 2 | The curse of Ham could be used as an excuse to justify the enslavement of African negroes but that did not make them members of an entirely different species ; and anyway the American Indians were not even black ! |
| 3 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 4 | But that did not make it any easier to break the news . |
| 5 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 6 | However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle . |
| 7 | Underneath it all , Markby suspected , Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action — but that did not mean he had not intended to do it . |
| 8 | That did not satisfy him either . |
| 9 | I was writing sonnets myself , but that did not satisfy me . |
| 10 | The catty among her sisters ( and the hatreds that rive the small band of women MPs have to be experienced to be believed ) called her Angela Brazil , but that did not stop her being the most popular girl in the school . |
| 11 | Paisley was back in prison , this time for his part in the Armagh demonstrations , but that did not stop him characterizing the Cameron Commission as a betrayal of the Ulster people to the rebels . |
| 12 | I did not know where I was , but that did not stop me saying , ‘ I 'm here ’ . |
| 13 | He ‘ saw ’ himself , ludicrously ill-dressed for the narrow and rock-tumbled track , gaping like a foppish caricature of the Lake Tourist : but that did not unsettle him . |
| 14 | But that did not perturb me . |
| 15 | That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 . |
| 16 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 17 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 18 | For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me . |
| 19 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 20 | Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry . |
| 21 | As Edward could hardly understand a word the man said either , that did not surprise him . |
| 22 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 23 | That did not surprise her . |
| 24 | That did not surprise her . |
| 25 | That did not cause them to escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue . |
| 26 | It was true there were many snakes there on hot days sunning themselves but that did not worry him . |
| 27 | When that did not work they tried pumping or spraying it on to neighbouring fields , hoping it would filter through the ground by natural causes . |
| 28 | ‘ Better files than people , I told him , but that did not interest him : all he could think of was the files . ’ |
| 29 | Kimon ( remember Thasos after all ) may not have been very well pleased with the way his Spartan friends had treated him , but that did not save him . |
| 30 | Her mother said it was stimulating to be upset , and maybe it was , but that did n't prevent her from preferring the solace of the old wisdom . |