Example sentences of "[not/n't] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finds fuller expression in The Favourite Game in which he describes ‘ the divine idiot ’ — though not to his satisfaction , as we shall see . ) |
| 2 | In an organisation with such talented people as Heaton Lee , Jock Haston and Ted Grant , however , he occupied inevitably a secondary role in the leadership — not to his taste . |
| 3 | COMICAL ’ and ‘ absurd ’ was how Jean-Paul Rappeneau greeted the news that the Oscar for the best foreign film had gone not to his ‘ Cyrano de Bergerac ’ , which had received five nominations , but to a Turkish-speaking Swiss film , ‘ Journey of Hope ’ . |
| 4 | From there the SAS returned to Kabrit , where Stirling found much that was not to his liking . |
| 5 | The smoky , slightly bitter flavour was not to his liking . |
| 6 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 7 | Joan , ’ she said without preamble , ‘ I have today received a letter from Sir Thomas Vaughan which pertains , not to his Norfolk administrative undertakings , but to his duty in respect of Edward Prince of Wales . ’ |
| 8 | He found the fast-paced cut and thrust of particle physics , with its aggressive competitiveness , not to his taste . |
| 9 | Not to his eleven children . |
| 10 | Not to his neighbours . |
| 11 | Not to his mates . |
| 12 | The Poet 's care for him is manifested in his absence , not to his face ; there can be no suspicion of flattery . |
| 13 | In fact he had broken the most famous statesman of Europe , and within six months succeeded to Lloyd George 's place if not to his fame . |
| 14 | For the sake of privacy he had been carried , not to his own ward in the hospital , but to the tiger house next door where Hari and the Prime Minister had been incarcerated . |
| 15 | The objection was not to his mode of teaching , but to his association with intellectual forces which were seen as foreign to the task of " upholding the canon of English literature " . |
| 16 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 17 | Then most vividly he had described his own studies there at the ancient university of Heidelberg , capturing the attention of the two lordling drunkards by directing his talk not to his studies of the classics , philosophy , German language and metaphysics , but to the duelling societies , their codes and practices , feuds and meetings at misty dawn — sword fights to the death … |
| 18 | As appears from his writing , the British deaf scene was not to his liking . |
| 19 | It was not with her will , not at her command , that Brother Tutilo — dare I even call him Brother still ? — stole her away , and worse , in the blackness of his offence brought another innocent soul into sin , if not to his death . |
| 20 | Miranda could see by his grip on the newspaper , the thinness of his lips , and above all how he directed his words to her , not to his daughter , how much it cost him to refuse her anything . |
| 21 | But shortly afterwards , er , I was in confrontation with the chairman the basis of my contract with was such that it was not to his liking and I was not prepared to give way in the matter and was dismissed within six months of the acquisition of by . |
| 22 | While he welcomed this new-found enthusiasm for Broadstairs after the gloomy events of the past few days , this rowdy pink-faced band , hardly recognisable as the distinguished gathering of Literary Lionisers , was not to his taste . |
| 23 | I believe that that was the only occasion , in both public and private , that I saw Eliot not to his best advantage . |
| 24 | A long and laborious analysis of affaires de coeur , though not of the explicitness we should expect today , was not to his taste . |
| 25 | Not to his face , you understand , and he did make up for it by giving lavishly to the church … ’ |
| 26 | It is a large sum of money and it is especially favourable to Maidenhead and not to his constituents , I will give him that . |
| 27 | It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land . |
| 28 | If the husband 's shirt has lost a button , he says , ’ Mary , Mary , why is my shirt without a button ’ , to the Black ’ girl ’ not to his wife . |
| 29 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 30 | I did n't to his eyes appear sufficiently impressed . |