Example sentences of "he [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , a bloke ca n't , can 'e , unless 'e do n't mind the 'igh jump .
2 The homework lessons he 'd brought with him did n't find a great deal of favour in her eyes .
3 The Chancellor also signalled he did not favour an early cut in interest rates and argued that the decision to impose VAT on fuel had been ‘ logical ’ and would not be reversed .
4 The Chancellor also signalled he did not favour an early cut in interest rates .
5 The court held that the keeper was guilty of manslaughter , even though he did not owe the contractual duty to open and close the gate to the victim .
6 He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war .
7 The laird , however , would have a short memory indeed if he did not feel a deep sense of gratitude to the man who could remove the spectre of this large indigent family becoming a charge upon his estate .
8 Attempts to block Panic 's candidacy by claiming that he did not fulfil the one-year residency requirement had been overruled by the Supreme Court on Dec. 9 .
9 He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be .
10 For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east .
11 He did not want an American invasion .
12 Mr Rurka said he found the council 's decision difficult to understand , but he stressed that he did not want an adversarial relationship .
13 When he finally launched the attack , he did not inform the Central Committee in Moscow .
14 Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine .
15 Although Haslam 's lack of experience was no real handicap at a time when inspired amateurism prevailed , he did not face an easy task .
16 He did not make a great impact beyond his own office .
17 He did not make a strong impression , ’ says Tony Rex .
18 Mr Skokov has rarely spoken in public ( in his three years in parliament , he did not make a single speech ) , yet he has been one of Russia 's most influential politicians .
19 He did not make a settled return to London until 20 October .
20 ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said .
21 He did not acquire a good reputation .
22 For example , he did not treat the Punic wars as repetitions of events that had already occurred in the past and would occur again in the future .
23 He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names — Speedwell and Acorn — he was none the wiser .
24 By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected .
25 He did not conduct a house-to-house survey , nor did he construct a clearly defined ‘ poverty line ’ .
26 Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project .
27 She told Mr Ashdown he did not represent an inner-city constituency such as hers , which would bear the brunt of any immigration .
28 A member of the Institute having been found to have been in breach of Bye-law 76(c) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he between 1 January 1985 and 30 March 1992 engaged in public practice contrary to Bye-law 59 when he did not hold a current practising certificate was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs .
29 However he did not hold the Soviet Union , a long-time Syrian ally , responsible for the exodus , saying that the relationship between Syria and the Soviet Union was " as firm as ever " , but blaming the United States " for playing a major role in the realization of Israeli desires " .
30 He did not anticipate an open struggle for power between the Liberal and Labour Parties , but looked for proportional representation to resolve the tensions over distribution of seats between the two parties within an ongoing alliance of progressive forces .
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