Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is known of his education except that he did not lay claim to any degree . |
| 2 | He did not deserve death by heavy metal poisoning . |
| 3 | He would allow no exceptions to this fundamental rule ; but he did not exclude growth within a framework authoritatively established , and he could help to reshape the future through the men whom he chose as prior . |
| 4 | " He did not want blood on his hands but on ours . |
| 5 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 6 | First , where he knowingly assists in a dishonest and fraudulent design or breach of trust undertaken by the insider , notwithstanding the fact that he did not acquire possession of the trust property ( ’ knowing assistance ’ ) . |
| 7 | His pipe was out but he did not relinquish hold of it . |
| 8 | Hopeless though it seemed , he did not abandon hope of finding a parent . |
| 9 | The transcript departed from aspects of the evidence which Reagan had given to the Tower Commission in 1987 , and suggested that he had returned to his earliest explanations of the Iran-contra affair , insisting that he did not trade arms for hostages and had seen not " one iota " of evidence that profits from the operation had been diverted to the contras . |
| 10 | He did not leave Hampshire until 1936 , during which lengthy spell he played 700 matches — a record — for them . |
| 11 | He did not leave London until 25 August , and he was back in Paris by 18 September for the only attempt which he ever made , as head of government , to negotiate direct with a foreign statesman . |
| 12 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 13 | But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room . |
| 14 | He did not give figures for troops and hardware . |
| 15 | Obstructive symptoms then resulted in a further small bowel resection but he did not achieve remission despite prednisolone . |
| 16 | He did not mention Constance at all . |
| 17 | ‘ These killings started when he broke free ; and he did not escape punishment for working under the Great Criminal , as we did . ’ |
| 18 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 19 | His typical working week would be short indeed if he did not consider Saturday as a normal working day — but was it ? |
| 20 | In their Doric orders the entasis was the subject of meticulous attention : in Burn 's Theseion orders he did not use entasis at all , although its absence is not noticeable . |
| 21 | He did not see size of firm as a particularly important factor in his choice . |
| 22 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 23 | He did not call Amanda for a week . |
| 24 | Similarly , though he insisted on doctrine which he considered essential to the Anglican faith , he did not require conformity on non-essentials , and also believed that there were divine mysteries on which it was idle to speculate . |
| 25 | graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King . |
| 26 | He shows clearly that he did not find evidence of the so-called two-tier phenomenon to which the hon. Lady refers , but that the total of care provided was increased . |
| 27 | He did so with the support of the southern Saxons and , after a reign of eleven years and seven months ( HE IV , 5 ) , Hlothhere died from wounds received in battle either on 6 February 685 ( HE IV , 26 ) ( if , as Bede believed , he became king in July 673 ) or 686 ( if he did not become king until 674 ) . |
| 28 | He did not take part in the false publicity that some aides drummed up before the tour . |
| 29 | The warehouse proprietor was unaware of B's purchase and himself bought them from A. It was held that the warehouse proprietor did not acquire good title , since being already in possession of the goods he did not take delivery under the contract of sale . |
| 30 | He did not take sides against Abstraction , even though he was one of the organisers of a Surrealist exhibition in London in 1937 . |