Example sentences of "nor did he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The Bristol sector controller neither complied with the co-pilot 's specific request for radar navigational assistance , nor did he advise the flight of its position or give any relevant information regarding Southampton , such as current weather , runway in use , pressure settings etc . ’
2 Nor did he think it would serve any purpose to refer to the lipstick-smeared card , originally written by Dotty and still wired to the stem of the mutilated plant , which , in the heat of the moment and the fitful light of the streetlamps was mistakenly thought to have been dipped in blood .
3 Lane did not take offence at his boss 's comment , nor did he slow down .
4 He saw no evidence that the German Socialists were either willing or able to restrain Prussian ambitions , nor did he place any faith in bourgeois internationalism .
5 He had no fits nor did he suffer from the falling sickness . ’
6 Nor did he expect them to be republished .
7 I will give the right hon. Gentleman no such undertaking ; nor did he expect me to .
8 Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established .
9 But his step was not his familiar jaunty one , nor did he carry his rolled-up towel and swimming-trunks .
10 He did n't refer to the party , nor did he mention the earring , but the subject seemed to hang over Merrill like the sword of Damocles .
11 Nor did he appear to have any conception of a dated sequence .
12 At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays .
13 He attended none of the leading schools , nor did he go to university .
14 Nor did he go to the Rousseau extreme , saying that we 're basically noble savages .
15 Nor did he mean what he and Barth had joined in attacking in Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology ( Brunner being indeed far sharper and harsher against Schleiermacher than Barth ever was : Barth used to insist that only one who was capable of loving Schleiermacher was entitled to criticise him ) , namely the supplementing of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ by additional sources of a more general religious or ethical kind .
16 Nor did he shuffle them around , as an almost annual political gymkhana , in the way that Harold Wilson did .
17 Nor did he draw any obvious conclusions when he kept on coming on Tina in bed with other men .
18 Ferdinando had aged , too , was no longer as vigorous nor did he walk so tall and straight .
19 Nor did he do much to temper them .
20 Nor did he do much else about it .
21 But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist .
22 Nor did he distinguish clearly between practices in solo and tutti sections .
23 He did n't step away , nor did he finish .
24 He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security .
25 Nor did he succeed in restoring his servants to life , ’ Davide said drily .
26 Nor did he fancy it greatly ; after some years away from Mrs Lorimer 's hotel and of looking after himself , eating exactly what he liked , it was hard to get used to her iron hand with a potato .
27 He did not conduct a house-to-house survey , nor did he construct a clearly defined ‘ poverty line ’ .
28 But he was n't stuck up about this , nor did he ignore Carrie and Nick when other people were there .
29 Nor did he suggest that the government of the Third Reich used the 1936 Olympiad as a propaganda vehicle for the German Nazi Party .
30 He did n't , nor did he return a second Journal call .
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