Example sentences of "that they [verb] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police said that they had n't realized that they had to keep it . |
| 2 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 3 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 4 | That non-enrollers were more likely than migrants to say that they had n't done a course because they needed other qualifications could imply ignorance of entry requirements . |
| 5 | There were still huge rooms in the Ship that they had n't explored yet . |
| 6 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 7 | She was surprised that they had n't sent at least a detective . |
| 8 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |
| 9 | Did people want any special kind of photos during the war that they had n't asked for previously ? |
| 10 | They reveal that they had n't planned another child . |
| 11 | His first comment was : ‘ I have n't seen much of Matthew recently ’ — as though they had n't happened to meet in the street for a week or two — not that they had n't spoken for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 12 | Fred said when they had dropped into Jacksons of Piccadilly to buy Daisy some out-of-season strawberries that they had n't thought of in Fortnum 's . |
| 13 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 14 | Not even the fantasy that one of the Tsar 's descendents was preparing to come out and offer himself as a leader within Russia itself , defying the authorities to arrest him and prove that they had n't changed after all . |
| 15 | Except that they had n't known how bad . |
| 16 | Why had n't somebody checked that they had n't left their spears for all and sundry to trip over ? |
| 17 | Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen . |
| 18 | People have achieved things here that they coud n't do in Russia , not even in their wildest dreams . ’ |
| 19 | She was surprised to notice that they did n't make for either of London 's airports ; rather they seemed to be flying west into the rapidly darkening sky . |
| 20 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 21 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 22 | ‘ The terrifying thing was that they did n't speak . |
| 23 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 24 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 25 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 26 | IBM turned its first Unix system , the RT , into a child of the ghetto and told 90% of its customers that they did n't want it , it was n't for them . |
| 27 | Yes erm , it was very obvious from the word go that they did n't want us . |
| 28 | Terry and Tom said that they did n't want any food and when they asked Brian , he refused to answer . |
| 29 | After all the tubes had gone my family came to see her , before that they did n't want to come and see her . |
| 30 | He then said that they did n't want an understanding with the United States , because they know that this was impossible ( sic ) . |