Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | It is a sad reflection on his party that for so long he did not enjoy a smell of office . |
| 3 | The prince is given the freedom of the garden if only he does not kiss the fairy . |
| 4 | If only he did not love Madeleine so totally , so hopelessly , he told himself as he drove down Oxford Street towards Marble Arch . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His sister was his mother , only he did not know it until he was thirty-eight years old . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps he does not know that I have a suitcase full of letters from constituents who are desperately concerned about the Bill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps he did not trust himself to mount that stool and do what he had to do . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Marcelle softly , ‘ perhaps he did not understand what you said . |
| 13 | Perhaps he did not like to argue with Jean-Claude , suspecting that my lover may have been put fully in the picture . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Obviously he did not make himself known so we can only speculate as to who he was watching , but we are all hoping that Trevor Proby will soon get the call . |
| 17 | Obviously he did not know from the look on his face . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , he was interested in mathematics only as a hobby , and so he did not bother to publish any of his work . |
| 19 | So he did not understand why Izzie touched him on the shoulder before they began and said , ‘ At the first sign of any trouble , just stop . |
| 20 | So he did not wish greatly to eat , although he did , and he kept the same singing pitch running through his being as he talked quietly with Tuathal and Eochaid and the others about what was to be done ; which meant what Siward would do . |
| 21 | And so he did not enter the field , but walked on , past the gate . |
| 22 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 23 | So he did not see the young photographer who was now taking pictures of the King … |
| 24 | Sensibly he did not wait for a reply , since the possibilities were clearly endless . |
| 25 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 26 | Anyway he did not like the tone . |
| 27 | Tonight he did not look so stern , and there was a softness in his fine , dark eyes . |
| 28 | The landowner has the advantage of receiving a cash sum while still enjoying the possession of his land , but generally he does not have the security of knowing that the transaction will proceed . |
| 29 | The salesperson accurately identifies customer needs and relates product benefits to those needs ; the buyer does not offer much resistance , but somehow he does not buy . |
| 30 | The other boy , David , was also puzzling about his experience in the cutting and had resolved to go back and try to find out if he had been dreaming ; somehow he did not feel frightened but more determined to see the tramp and make friends with him . |