Example sentences of "he did not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Only Robert McNamara of the top team had real doubts , but he did not make them public . |
2 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
3 | If Casaubon had in mind something more precise than an alternative to the disguised Machiavellianism of the contemporary Tacitists , he did not make it clear . |
4 | He did not make it obvious , but he led the conversation , changed topics when he thought it needed it , enquired robustly of the lawyer certain things , and more gently of the females , as if to bring out gems of information they had stored in their pretty little heads . |
5 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
6 | Father cared , but he did not give us enough time and attention . |
7 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
8 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
9 | Local priest Fr Dermot Britton said he understood the remains of an altar had been found but he did not think it necessary to talk to his congregation about the issue of Black Magic . |
10 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
11 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |
12 | Although be knew that this happens , he did not think it plausible that all differences between cells could be caused in this way , because he could not see how a sufficient number of specific external stimuli could be brought to bear during development . |
13 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
14 | His claim that he did not consider it insulting is , technically , a mistake of law , and as such no excuse . |
15 | He did not consider it necessary to establish Japanese defence forces to reinforce the American presence . |
16 | How much of what the informants said was discarded by the interviewer because he did not find it useful — and by what criteria did he decide what was useful and what was not ? |
17 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
18 | The concept of altering demand to remain at full employment was one he did not find it difficult to grasp . |
19 | As for regret , she was feeling that already , but how much sharper it would be when he decided he did n't want her any more , as he certainly would do sooner or later . |
20 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
21 | He did n't drink it all himself ? |
22 | so he did n't eat it all at dinner time . |
23 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
24 | ‘ He did n't give me any easy shots , and from the first point to the last he played his old way . ’ |
25 | What has got he did n't give me any . |
26 | He did n't give me satisfactory answer he said oh I 'll think of it |
27 | As he passed her he stopped and said , ‘ He did n't give you any idea what was wrong ? ’ |
28 | He did n't give us any choice , he just went and put a record on . |
29 | ‘ No , he did n't tell me that . ’ |
30 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — he did n't tell me that . |