Example sentences of "[noun] he do [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike his brothers he did not seem able to get himself together ; wasted his time at university , married very young , came to London , did this job and that ; wrote a book that was noticed but made no money , then another , a jaunty and irreverent account of a journalist 's career in the provinces . |
| 2 | look , you 're going to have it on the floor , will you hold it up straight please or I might have to scream , shall I scream ? , it 's alright Richard he did n't spill any |
| 3 | Christopher Tucker , 29 , of Hounslow , west London , who will be sentenced later this month , was allowed bail on condition he does not enter any of the fast food chain 's stores . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a wonder he did n't go mad . |
| 5 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 6 | I touched his arm , but apart from deepening his frown for a second he did n't pay any attention . |
| 7 | What Coetzee 's work suggests , and it is a pity he does not pursue this point fully , is that in Britain before 1914 the potential fragmentation of the political right was contained . |
| 8 | It 's a great pity he did n't preserve any detail , and he looked , er , like all his other papers had been left in the library of Congress until two thousand and twenty five , and then they will all become public . |
| 9 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Despite his fame he did n't have any big star hang ups and he was very down to earth . ’ |
| 11 | The worker accepted that at that point he did not require any more help , and terminated the contract , leaving her address . |
| 12 | During our meeting he did not seem interested in Cathy or her news . |
| 13 | Funny that — that 's what a lot of people familiar with Macintosh System say about Windows : commenting on the venture between Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc to build the Macintosh look and feel atop DR DOS , Microsoft Corp general manager Brad Chase told the Wall Street Journal he did n't see any new software from Apple and Novell as a threat — such software ‘ is like putting lipstick on a chicken , ’ he said — ‘ but it 's still a chicken . ’ |
| 14 | Though he hopes to double the size of the group he does not plan any further acquisitions until the spring , preferring instead to work on ensuring that the Sea Life businesses are fully integrated into the group . |
| 15 | I listened as the young man tried to get away — telling the wino he did n't have any money . |
| 16 | To this day he did n't understand that authority . |
| 17 | Pete rubbed the steam from the glasses he did n't want nicked and said , ‘ Nice one , John . |
| 18 | The second night he did not feel well and suffered severely from sleepiness . |
| 19 | Because the postman milkman he did n't take any notice until he matured . |
| 20 | Besides , being so late in the season he did not anticipate any difficulty ; although there was something else to which he had not given any thought . |
| 21 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 22 | Testers ' comments : Pamela : ‘ Heavy on the shoulders , and although Sam went to sleep he did n't look comfy . |
| 23 | It seems plausible to suppose that unless a person enjoys or is soon likely to acquire effective power in a society he does not possess legitimate political authority over that society . |
| 24 | When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members . |
| 25 | Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he did n't have long to live . |
| 26 | But of course he does not stand alone . |
| 27 | The reason he did not start this game was that , as Mr Wilkinson put it ‘ he did not get a kick ’ , when Leeds were beaten 4–0 , their heaviest defeat of the season , by Manchester City a week earlier . |
| 28 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 29 | My elder brother he does n't work hard but I suppose he is kind of quite . |
| 30 | At the time he did n't make any comment , though I 'm sure he thought quite a lot ! |