Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 2 | The fact that he could barely move his wounded arm did n't improve his mood . |
| 3 | Breeze wondered why his righteous indignation did not prompt him to offer his seat to one of the women who had just got in , clutching a shopping-basket with one hand and a baby with the other . |
| 4 | His administrative post did not prevent him from taking an active part in several engagements , including the bloody battle of Chrysler 's Farm . |
| 5 | Montague managed to convince Mortimer of his innocence , but his narrow escape did not discourage the king , and when the coup came it had all the appearance of being carefully planned . |
| 6 | His grave expression did n't match the ironic amusement in eyes which held darker shadows . |
| 7 | His social life did n't suffer , because he did n't have a social life . |
| 8 | Not only had she been unhelpful from a business point of view , but the prospects of inveigling her into his empty bed did not seem rosy . |
| 9 | In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function . |
| 10 | Mr Trotter as slightly taken aback by this stupid suggestion , as his scientific mind did n't include ghosts . |
| 11 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 12 | Mungo hoped that his instant panic did n't show on his features . |
| 13 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 14 | Jacques Devraux 's face was visible in the rearview mirror and his cold expression did not flicker as he held his hand firmly on the blaring horn . |
| 15 | And his , his left hand does n't know what his right leg is doing ! |
| 16 | But his good fortune did not stop there . |
| 17 | His brilliant plan did not meet with the approval of the Imperial Naval Staff . |
| 18 | But Crumwallis in his present state did not look as if he would provide a soothing influence upstairs . |
| 19 | Saints manager Ian Branfoot is fighting off strong competition from Liverpool , Tottenham , Aston Villa and Everton by offering Le Tissier a new contract even though his present agreement does not expire until July . |
| 20 | This is because his present stance does not allow him to move freely into the ball . |
| 21 | Still , the fact that Lord Heptonstall had the use of his all night does rather direct the spotlight on him . ’ |
| 22 | The slim tube feeding into his bandaged nose did n't help either . |
| 23 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 24 | His harsh gaze did n't falter . |
| 25 | But his small rebellion did not bring him even a modest reward . |
| 26 | ‘ His general foulness did n't ripen till later . ’ |
| 27 | His apparent apostasy did not secure his release . |
| 28 | For Hobbes , however , though such ‘ histories ’ or lengthy records of experience are of great prudential value and interest , the application of his ratiocinative method does not demand them . |
| 29 | For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned . |
| 30 | His cooling-off period does not expire until the end of seven days following the acceptance . |