Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to Herbert Read , dated " 16 February " ( probably written in 1925 ) he described a racial prejudice from which he was not immune — although he did not specify that prejudice , its nature is clear from the context , in which he offered Disraeli as an example of what he meant . |
| 2 | Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event . |
| 3 | There was the German from Maple Drive known as ‘ The Nazi who Escaped justice from Nuremberg ’ , who , although he did not own any kind of pet , bared his teeth like an Alsatian … |
| 4 | Howard 's second concern with the quality of staff was with training , although he did not use that word . |
| 5 | You see , the last order he 'd had from her was made from London after she 'd disappeared — although he did n't know that . |
| 6 | He likes it no matter what you pu although he did n't like that other stuff we bought did he ? |
| 7 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 8 | But she could n't prevent the tightening of her muscles at his touch and she knew that he had n't missed this instinctive revulsion . |
| 9 | She said if he ca n't come out to the children And he has good as told her that he had n't got much time for children , visiting children . |
| 10 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 11 | If this was the kind of stuff he had put in his novel , it was n't surprising that he had n't found any takers for it . |
| 12 | He had suddenly realised that he had n't had any lunch . |
| 13 | Crawford reminded the committee that he had not received any salary for a month , but offered to accept £245 for termination . |
| 14 | While emphasising that he had not reached any firm conclusions , Lord Donaldson 's voice will be a powerful one in behind-the-scenes manoeuvres as rules governing the exercise of the new advocacy rights are hammered out away from the parliamentary battlefield . |
| 15 | Her expression became very solemn , but he was sure that he had not made any real impression . |
| 16 | Arens insisted that he had not made any requests for US financial aid to cover the costs of the conflict . |
| 17 | As he waited he realized that he had not felt such keen anticipation and happiness since he had served in the front line at Magdeburg . |
| 18 | V. P. Singh visited the area soon after the disaster and told reporters that he had not seen such human suffering in any previous natural calamity . |
| 19 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 20 | All that amazed her was that he had not expected that . |
| 21 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |
| 22 | He covered her over and ran the torch around the dirt , checking that he had not left any incriminating clues . |
| 23 | His looming presence utterly cowed Rickie who whined something about only wanting to play Ellen a little night music , and that he had not meant any harm , and what was a guy supposed to be doing on this boat anyway ? |
| 24 | Takeshita appeared before the budget committee on Nov. 26 and gave two hours of sworn testimony to the effect that he had not had any dealings with organized crime . |
| 25 | His tone suggested that he did not pin much faith in this being the case . |
| 26 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 27 | He promised in the Chamber that he did not want any volunteers to be turned away from offering their service , and I am sure that he will do his best to keep that promise . |
| 28 | President Jaime Paz Zamora , claiming that he did not want any confusion between " electoral campaigning and government work " , accepted the resignations of three other ADN ministers and one from the Left Revolutionary Front ( FRI ) . |
| 29 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 30 | A Commons committee decided yesterday not to accept Mr Lamont 's claim that he did not break any rules by using the cash to evict sex therapist Sara Dale from his London home . |