Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie Ramsay , managing director of the Powderhall greyhound track in Edinburgh , said he did not expect to lose much business if the bookmakers did extend their hours . |
| 2 | The publication of his work generally provoked in Eliot a sense of release — he had evacuated something , to use one of his favourite expressions , and was left with an agreeable sensation of vacancy — and after the appearance of " Little Gidding " in the autumn , he did not expect to do any serious intellectual work during the winter . |
| 3 | He did not want to spend another night on his seat in Madison Square . |
| 4 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 5 | Although he had only met her briefly , he did not want to meet any more girls . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , he was interested in mathematics only as a hobby , and so he did not bother to publish any of his work . |
| 7 | Where the official receiver receives a request for a meeting of creditors to be held in a case where he had decided not to summon such a meeting , he must withdraw any notices given by him that he did not intend to summon such a meeting and fix a date and venue for the meeting not more than three months from the date of the request and proceed as if he had decided to summon a meeting . |
| 8 | He felt so curious to visit it that he did not stop to make any detailed arrangements about the order in which they should go down . |
| 9 | He did not appear to have any financial or marital problems . ’ |
| 10 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 11 | Dr Lyons said Moore may have used the phrase ‘ the people I love ’ because he did not wish to name those involved as his parents might see the note . |
| 12 | He had some more coins stitched into his broad leather pouched belt as well as his own money , but he did not wish to use that . |
| 13 | Aylwin , however , stated that he did not wish to accept such an offer , nor did he feel that it was justified , given that he had agreed to be elected for a four-year period and that to alter the term of office ( by amending the Constitution ) " would be to change the rules of play of our democratic co-existence " . |
| 14 | Indeed , Charles of Navarre , Jeanne 's son born in 1332 , was as close as Edward III to the last Capetians , and he did not hesitate to point this out in the 1350s when it suited him . |
| 15 | Peter showed this when he did not hesitate to take some of the brothers from Joppa with him on the journey to Caesarea and the house of Cornelius . |
| 16 | Huy allowed a beaker to be filled so as not to transgress the etiquette of hospitality , but he did not propose to drink any wine . |
| 17 | And Rab , he did not have to take this snash , she was supposed to get him better . |
| 18 | Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me . |
| 19 | It is not known when he died but one hopes that he did not have to endure such a miserable existence for many years . |
| 20 | At the hospital Guy 's reflexes were all right , and he did not seem to have any brain damage , so the doctors told his father that he just had concussion . |
| 21 | But whatever else Anselm may have learnt from Hugh of Lyons , he did not learn to accept this extension of papal sovereignty at the expense of the church for which he was himself responsible . |
| 22 | He did not attempt to remember all the features that together make up a face . |
| 23 | He did n't want to usurp any announcement by SCO ( see page one ) and was still talking in terms of how SCO might gracefully go to SVR4 and whether the companies ' two technologies might be blended . |
| 24 | He did n't want to voice any suspicions until he felt a bit surer of Joanne 's allegiances . |
| 25 | For a moment he wished he had n't come : he did n't want to see this new Carrie . |
| 26 | He told Ecclestone he did n't want to drive any more , he wanted out . |
| 27 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 28 | Towards the end of his association with Minton , Bowler realised : ‘ He did n't want to play this role , but there was nothing else left to play . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ His tactical awareness was second to none — but he did n't want to know some of the more boring aspects of management . |
| 30 | He did n't expect to find any as the hotel had recently been refurbished and the KGB would have used the latest available technology , burying it in the plasterwork , the heating and the plumbing . |