Example sentences of "he [verb] not [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
| 2 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
| 3 | Yesterday , in a letter to the GP signatories , Mr Fallon says he did not refer to fundholding practices but believes they have benefitted from controlling their budgets . |
| 4 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 5 | Yet , in truth , he did not have to play-act . |
| 6 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 7 | His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school … |
| 8 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
| 9 | He had not retired to bed sober , but then he rarely , if ever , did . |
| 10 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 11 | Warner v. Browne ( 1807 ) 8 East 165 there was an agreement to lease at a rent of £40 per annum and it was agreed that the landlord , W. Warner , should not raise the rent nor turn out the tenant ‘ so long as the rent is duly paid quarterly , and he does not expose to sale or sell any article that may be injurious to W. Warner in his business . ’ |