Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was reduced in some intangible way : maybe it was his youth ; perhaps his essence had not yet unfurled to fill the room the way Francis 's used to . |
| 2 | At a meeting of the commissars of the Roslavl' garrison the military commander of the town hospital admitted that the political cell in his institution did not really exist , although there were occasional discussions of newspaper articles . |
| 3 | The fact that a practitioner has a copy of the Blue Book ( which contains the Institute 's regulations and guidance notes on investment business ) on his shelf does not necessarily mean that he has read and understood it , and in some firms the Institute 's Investment Business Gazettes ( which announce changes to regulations and other requirements , and provide a general round-up of developments likely to affect authorised firms ) are filed away unread if they are kept at all . |
| 4 | Fortunately , his fame had not yet reached the gutters so the winos were not aware that they were providing material for a movie star 's performance . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , his allegiance did not suddenly evaporate and by 1869 , on the eve of his departure for Basle , he was still happy to be the central member of a small circle of devotees . |
| 6 | ‘ If it helps , his fiancée has not exactly endeared herself to anyone in the short time that she 's been here . |
| 7 | Whilst they were waiting to see the magistrate , Richard Baxter spoke kindly to Mr. Keting regarding the needs of his soul , which , ‘ his conscience did not well digest ’ . |
| 8 | His contact had not merely tipped him off that drugs were on the premises , he had told him where to look . |
| 9 | To Ariel , Roukoubé was the creamy colour of a peanut kernel , as if she , in her cinnamon tawniness , had been shucked to reveal him inside her ; and inside him , the pulse of his life , beating in the soft place of his head where the plates of his skull had not yet met . |
| 10 | He remembered that his father had not once asked whether Tess had money or not . |
| 11 | Li Yuan swallowed , sensing that everything depended on what he said in the next few moments ; that his father had not quite made up his mind , even now . |
| 12 | However , with their playmaker Turner injured , and his replacement Yendle not really hitting it off with scrum-half Llewellyn , Newport rarely threatened behind the scrum . |
| 13 | What his theory does not clearly specify is the method for determining the extent to which we observe cultural evolutionary achievements and the circumstances in which interference through institutional design is justified . |
| 14 | His voice did not quite work properly . |
| 15 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 16 | Being in a position of power , his stupidity does not just affect him , nor just his family , but a whole kingdom , showing the universal not only the domestic significance of the old 's relationship to the young . |
| 17 | Most of the surviving cast of characters in his book have not only survived in the tumultuous ebb and flow of the art world that took place since Hoving 's retirement , they have flourished . |
| 18 | However , as Akiskal has no data to enable him to elaborate on the processes involved or the interaction of the contributing factors , his model does not yet have any practical value . |
| 19 | From his servants they learned that he and his coachman had not yet returned from a visit to the opera . |
| 20 | It may be that one strand of his personality has not yet matured , and even if it never does , that does not mean that he does not love you . |
| 21 | Brunnson therefore does an excellent job of distinguishing between the formulation and implementation of ideologies , helping us to begin to see how corporate rational analysis and the organizational perspectives may fit together , but his thesis does not sufficiently recognize the degree to which both rationality and negotiation may still underlie the establishment of his ideologies . |
| 22 | A husband who tells his wife about his redundancy does not always meet with the right kind of sympathy or support . |
| 23 | By the look of him , however , his chief had not perhaps shared a similarly successful period of recuperation , for he sounded tetchy as he picked up the brief note Lewis had left him . |
| 24 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 25 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
| 26 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |