Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] not " in BNC.

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1 Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing .
2 There was an atmosphere that was almost crackling in this room and she was sure that Jules would notice , but apparently he did not .
3 Although Freud saw ‘ civilized society perpetually threatened with disintegration ’ , apparently he did not foresee how far society would go in the liberation of instinctual drives …
4 It is a sad reflection on his party that for so long he did not enjoy a smell of office .
5 The prince is given the freedom of the garden if only he does not kiss the fairy .
6 If only he had not caught nits and been sent home from school , fallen in the beck , lost his shoes , been attacked by Rosie or injured his hand just because he was too cowardly to follow Buddie 's instructions .
7 The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared .
8 His sister was his mother , only he did not know it until he was thirty-eight years old .
9 If only he did not love Madeleine so totally , so hopelessly , he told himself as he drove down Oxford Street towards Marble Arch .
10 Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper .
11 He could break you in pieces , only he 's not been well … .
12 He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death .
13 Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted .
14 And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all .
15 Perhaps he had not yet returned from his interview .
16 Out of all his questions asked in the line of the investigation , perhaps he had not got very much , although he was not so sure about that .
17 Perhaps he had not realised it himself .
18 Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief .
19 Perhaps he does not know that I have a suitcase full of letters from constituents who are desperately concerned about the Bill .
20 Perhaps he does not realize that this is exactly the kind of decoration to be found in Eton chapel where the music of the Eton Choirbook was performed ( illus.5 ) .
21 I would recommend to Ran that perhaps he does not go on such a big trip again , and I 'm going to recommend it to myself . ’
22 Perhaps he has not done with you . ’
23 Perhaps he has not read them .
24 ‘ Ah , ’ said Marcelle softly , ‘ perhaps he did not understand what you said .
25 Perhaps he did not trust himself to mount that stool and do what he had to do .
26 Perhaps he did not like to argue with Jean-Claude , suspecting that my lover may have been put fully in the picture .
27 Something in his demeanour indicated that perhaps he did not quite believe her story of having climbed most of the way up Massis , which peasants and holy men alike knew to be inaccessible .
28 Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself .
29 Obviously he does not deny the cat 's whining and agitated leaping in the presence of the ball , nor does he refuse its possession of ‘ sensory data ‘ , but these will not show what the cat believes ; namely , ‘ what categories of things it recognises ’ .
30 Obviously he had not warned his sister of this visit .
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