Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 2 | Lucien found he had not wanted to hear that . |
| 3 | He found he did not mind . |
| 4 | On the Friday before the incident occurred he had not got home until three o'clock in the morning . |
| 5 | Did he intend everyone in the castle to know he did not want the wife he had married in such a hurry ? |
| 6 | But Norwich social services bosses say he does not need the pass because he can hobble a quarter of a mile without help . |
| 7 | Yet , faced with the necessity for resolute leadership , at this time of trial , Sir Patrick could only declare his satisfaction with the present policy and say he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 8 | Trouble is though as you say he 's not got a lot of hair really has he ? |
| 9 | Carew turned over a page in the file , pretending he had not heard . |
| 10 | ‘ Why of course they meet each other here , ’ Johnny declared , pretending he did not know what Luke was getting at . |
| 11 | Jehan stared about , pretending he did not know who she meant . |
| 12 | Either way , Brady says he does not feel threatened as Celtic move towards the end of a second successive season without a trophy under his management . |
| 13 | Mr Hellriegel says he does not care if he never sees Mr Glennie again . |
| 14 | He says he does not want to privatise loss-making state industries , or change the labour laws that make it virtually impossible for an employer to fire any employee . |
| 15 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 16 | Taylor says he does not want to get involved in emotional situations — but football is about emotion , and it disappoints me that Taylor does not want to show his . |
| 17 | Company secretary James Anderson says he does not want to set foot in Teesside following the collapse of negotiations to open a prestige caravan storage site at Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | Bailey says he does not sell them , but his friends Mick Jagger and the New York artist Julian Schnabel each have . |
| 19 | The deputé , in a supplementary question , asks what on earth the minister means by ‘ Belgian ’ and demands that he clarify this category which he says he does not recognise . |
| 20 | Yesterday , in a letter to the GP signatories , Mr Fallon says he did not refer to fundholding practices but believes they have benefitted from controlling their budgets . |
| 21 | CHRISTOPHER Gable says he did not set out to deliberately shock . |
| 22 | Julian Spalding , the director of Glasgow museums , says he did not want to ‘ create just a museum of Christianity , because that would be of limited appeal and too narrow in range . ’ |
| 23 | The inquiry says he did not raise his flag an assertion he strongly denies . |
| 24 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 25 | Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’ |
| 26 | These skills , however , are being applied to support the Vance-Owen peace plan on the ground that it contains a concession which Lord Owen says he has not made . |
| 27 | Even if the buyer says he has not made up his mind yet , the salesperson can continue with his presentation or ask the customer a question , depending on which is most appropriate to the given situation . |
| 28 | Haines obviously finds the idea of one machine for all , possibly based on Taligent , conceptually attractive , but says he has not heard anything in IBM about a merging . |
| 29 | None of the defendants cleared on appeal have managed to find new jobs in the City , and Mr Reed , who at 45 should be at the height of his career , says he has not tried . |
| 30 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |