Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that sooner or later , the flood would come , even if the sinful people around him did n't believe in that , or in anything else which God had said . |
| 2 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 3 | He did not engage in that sort of conversation . |
| 4 | He did not sit in any subsequent Parliament . |
| 5 | There was a spinner in the party , Derek Parry , but needless to say he did not play in any of the Tests . |
| 6 | Michael Laws was Compton 's deputy for that season , but he did not play in either of these matches . |
| 7 | Normally he did not indulge in second helpings , but — no , he would resist . |
| 8 | Now you may argue that he always had equal right provided he did not indulge in anal intercourse and I would agree with you . |
| 9 | He did not glance in that direction , but started to cross the square , when there were three shots in quick succession . |
| 10 | They were some way behind the rest of the school , but he did not seem in any hurry to catch them up . |
| 11 | Various in scope , the Schimmel collection ( mostly donated to the Metropolitan Museum , with smaller gifts and bequests to the Israel Museum and the Sackler Museum at Harvard ) resists simple classification as he did not specialise in one particular field or medium . |
| 12 | Goalkeeper Frazer Digby said he was given £1,000 as a loyalty payment , and a £50-a-game clean-sheet award when he did n't let in any goals . |
| 13 | He did n't seem in any hurry : because Louis was no longer there , Trent presumed , and because his cocaine habit demanded a goodly supply ready cut ; preparing more would be difficult once he was out in the rain . |
| 14 | She was beginning to discover that Lucenzo chose his words carefully and he did n't indulge in idle remarks or mere social chit-chat . |
| 15 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 16 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |
| 17 | He puzzled over that , but he kept remembering the older man 's face , and the sadness in it , and the awful fact that he had n't retaliated in any way . |
| 18 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 19 | Since his wife 's , Rachel 's , death he had n't joined in any of the social activities in Little Weirwold . |
| 20 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |