Example sentences of "he [verb] not [vb infin] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society boss Geoffrey Lister said he did not expect any economic recovery in the immediate future . |
| 2 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 3 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 4 | Under fire for his handling of the economy and his personal finances , Mr Lamont said he did not want any other Government job . |
| 5 | He did not offer any alternative explanation for apparent design , but left the question open . |
| 6 | Probably he did not think this likely to happen . |
| 7 | ‘ Pimm 's … ’ she said huskily , grateful he did not ask any painful questions , questions she could not have answered . |
| 8 | He did not know many English women . |
| 9 | Kenneth Taylor , who said he did not receive any extra payment other than his normal wages , was giving evidence at the High Court in Aberdeen on the second day of the trial of Alexander Murray . |
| 10 | When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members . |
| 11 | He did not like that leaded panes rarely featured here ; nor that , instead of hinges , they had a sash-and-pulley arrangement , meaning the windows did not easily stay open . |
| 12 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 13 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | If he did not suspect any particular person , he had no redress . |
| 15 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 16 | He did not trust this new wave of optimism . |
| 17 | He stated himself that he did not believe that neurotic symptoms all had a sexual cause and berated a student writing a paper on chess saying , ‘ you can not reduce everything to the Oedipus Complex ’ . |
| 18 | When Mr Knighton announced his bid , the Panel says , he did not have any independent corporate finance advisers , nor lawyers advising him . |
| 19 | He did not attend any professional fights nor , unlike his later friend Irving Layton , did he get much involved in fisticuffs . |
| 20 | He did not take many head blows . ’ |
| 21 | Yet he did not oppose all toxic waste movement ( after all , the same union represents workers at Rechem itself ) ; he simply did n't like the idea that big industrial nations like Canada could dump their dirty problems on this country and his members . |
| 22 | In this respect Locke is not an empiricist : he does not think that geometrical knowledge or , for that matter , the knowledge we would have in natural philosophy if we knew the real essences of substances , is empty and trivial . |
| 23 | It would also allow Mr Lamont to show he does not contemplate any deliberate devaluation of sterling . |
| 24 | He is so busy copying that he does not appreciate such short comments as the lecturer may make , from time to time , to explain why a step is being taken . |
| 25 | However , he does not have this negative interpretation of all events or all the time — otherwise he would be permanently depressed . |
| 26 | Remember that recovery is a slow but continuing process , and that there is no doubt that the patient will improve , provided he does not have any major setbacks . |
| 27 | He does not allow such economic camouflage as monetary compensatory amounts and export restitutions to hide the real issues . |
| 28 | His substitution of a new paper for the one he was invited to give is a major impingement on the negative face of the conference organisers and his audience , yet he does not use any redressive action to limit the damage . |