Example sentences of "that they [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now that they had n't Baby to visit any more , all that was bound to start again . |
| 3 | Cyril Gibbs says the council dumped a lot of stuff there that they had n't room for in the new building . ’ |
| 4 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The police said that they had n't realized that they had to keep it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 9 | There were still huge rooms in the Ship that they had n't explored yet . |
| 10 | You might have company , " Patrick panted. he knew that they had n't been followed , but he also knew that as soon as his mother discovered that he — that both of them — had gone , the first place she would head for would be Joe Hyde 's flat . |
| 11 | Can I also say that the erm the fear expressed about Woolwich , I believe to be fairly well founded Woolwich building , a Woolwich er , Building Society had been on erm , entered into a long time ago on this erm and the letter that was read out at Potter Street area committee from Woolwich indicated that they had n't yet decided whether they would proceed and er I think is I 've talked to the publican since they have promised us an answer this week er we are intending , we have spoken , Dermot 's also spoken to our managing director we are confident we will have an answer from this week and I have to tell you that I think the answer will either no , or it will be so hazy that we 'll need to take some action and make a decision . |
| 12 | Except that they had n't known how bad . |
| 13 | Why had n't somebody checked that they had n't left their spears for all and sundry to trip over ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had tried to get out of the car when he was driving and he considered it lucky that they had n't been killed , but as he and I were together more I came to admire her resolution and good sense . |
| 17 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Did people want any special kind of photos during the war that they had n't asked for previously ? |
| 21 | Eva protested that they had n't enough money . |
| 22 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 23 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was surprised that they had n't sent at least a detective . |
| 26 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 27 | that they had n't but schools , particularly high schools and I said well we were very interested as part of the the programme here because it was community erm not geography , because she 's a geographer and she says the geography side of it 's fine she will use information that the children collect for her benefit , but she 'll also use us you know , to define the information but she |
| 28 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 29 | Denise reveals that they had n't actually planned another child . |
| 30 | They reveal that they had n't planned another child . |