Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that she might be able to leave with him did n't even occur to her . |
| 2 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 3 | My clients were relieved , but the brothers , George and Mike Stevens , were not , and had made their feelings plain to Andrew Buccleuth in language that he did not normally hear outside the fringe theatre , of which he was a generous patron . |
| 4 | He did not even think about Greg Martin if he could help it . |
| 5 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 6 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 7 | Having reached this agreement , he allowed the king to take his time , and he did not even insist on returning to England , but renamed at Bec until a settlement had been reached . |
| 8 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 9 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 10 | He did not even smile at her . |
| 11 | She frequently waited for the King outside Buckingham Palace , even though he did not even know of her existence . |
| 12 | The second major effect of the introduction of private property occurred , according to Engels , as an indirect result of the change to patriliny , a state which he did not clearly distinguish from patriarchy . |
| 13 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 14 | She annoyed her father intensely by regularly wetting herself when he did not immediately attend to her . |
| 15 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 16 | His other trouble was that he did not really agree with Eden on policy . |
| 17 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 18 | He was not one of us ; he did not quite fit into the measured compartmentalised minds of the Service at that time . |
| 19 | He did not quite begin in rags ; he was the great-grandson of an Irish immigrant to New York , where his father worked in the cleaning department of the borough of Queens . |
| 20 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 21 | Elective surgery was carried out six weeks later and he did not therefore proceed through food reintroductions . |
| 22 | It is characteristic of the Government that although the Minister spoke for one quarter of an hour , he did not once refer to new clause 2 or defend the Government 's record . |
| 23 | In January 1936 he lectured in Dublin and when in June of the same year he agreed to read poetry at Sylvia Beach 's bookshop in Paris ( he was in that city for a four-day visit ) she described it as an " historic event " although one member of the audience on that occasion remembered how he did not once glance at his listeners , but seemed " fiercely defensive " and turned the pages with a " look very near distaste " : his profile was " like a bird of prey of some sort " . |
| 24 | Even so , he did not fully dispense with the technique of the classical school . |
| 25 | From the outset he had decided that he did not much care for the tall fair youth who seemed to look down his long nose at everything . |
| 26 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 27 | He did not actually arrive until early in 1946 ; meanwhile , Leclerc consolidated his hold over the south and Gracey 's role was phased out . |
| 28 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |
| 29 | This time it was for a new church in Gainsborough to honour the Lincolnshire-born John Robinson , pastor to the ‘ Pilgrim Fathers ’ although he did not actually sail in the Mayflower . |
| 30 | But she loved him , and that made it a bargain — and he did n't even deserve to be loved . |