Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a sentence linguist , this was something he did not regard as his concern . |
| 2 | Cecil , you will recall , did not choose as his mistress a bit-part actress with a silly surname . |
| 3 | But I did not go to his church . |
| 4 | The barbarians did not arrive in his lifetime , but there is no doubt that Eliot was aware that he was witnessing the end of that culture which , more than thirty years before , he had travelled to Europe to find . |
| 5 | O did not talk in his sleep that night ; all his dreams were silent films about shooting people . |
| 6 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 7 | Modigliani was in sympathy with the broad sentiments of the movement , the internationalism , the disgust at the war and those who profited from it , and the sensitivity to the new possibilities in art , although the emphasis on abstract art did not fit into his creed . |
| 8 | Beaverbrook 's Express group did not prosper under his son Max Aitken , who sold out some ten years after Beaverbrook 's death . |
| 9 | Hence the secrecy , and hence perhaps the vicious quarrel with Brampton , the rather effete manners of Master Buckingham , as well as the fact that Sir Thomas did not sleep with his wife . ’ |
| 10 | When he did not return to his hotel in the evening , Captain Trevor , a local man , bravely organized a search party . |
| 11 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 12 | The interesting thing is that while Applegarth did not return to his trade , or to the union movement , he retained his political radicalism to the end of his days : for another fifty years . |
| 13 | Indeed , he has commented that the only sensation that he recalls from his youth ( which did not evaporate on his coming of age ) was one of persistent desire . |
| 14 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 15 | More important , and very surprising , we are told that ‘ he did not repent of his crime ’ . |
| 16 | Gregory 's Pastoral Care said nothing about this aspect of a bishop 's work for the good reason that jurisdictions such as that claimed by Canterbury did not exist in his day . |
| 17 | Murdoch Macleod was born in Edinburgh and educated at Donaldson 's Hospital after which he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh tailoring firm , but this existence did not meet with his taste for adventure , so at the age of 19 he embarked on a steamer from Southampton to South Africa in 1892 . |
| 18 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 19 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 20 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 21 | Ibrox Villiers Cley did not stir in his seat . |
| 22 | In the beginning , a team of French builders was hired , but when they did not respond to his treatment of them as an army detachment , he fired them and barked orders at Anthony instead . |
| 23 | When Richard did not respond to his greeting except by frowning and then turning away , Hugh remained undismayed . |
| 24 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 25 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 26 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 27 | The Khan of the Merkuts did not fear for his position or for his influence . |
| 28 | A Treasury official , asked to cost yesterday 's Government boost for industry , did not hesitate in his answer : ‘ £1 billion . ’ |
| 29 | Neil Edwards , the 27-year-old Harlequins lock forward who broke his nose and had stitches inserted in a gashed lip in the 1810 win over the Irish , did not play for his club on Saturday but hopes to be fit to face Bristol this weekend . |
| 30 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |