Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] him [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 2 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 3 | I might have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would draw the attention of the House to his views on the two new clauses , but I do not recall him even mentioning them . |
| 4 | He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him . |
| 5 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 6 | In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function . |