Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 2 | ‘ We do not think his mental state will deteriorate immediately without medication , but we would obviously be anxious to have him back . ’ |
| 3 | The judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech , and held that it did not affect his primary conclusion as stated above . |
| 4 | The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral . |
| 5 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |
| 6 | He has turned his head away , she is glad , she does not want his mocking face listening . |
| 7 | I would not want his tainted love ! |
| 8 | He did not want his own country to lose its identity in a supranational body . |
| 9 | The announcement followed revelations that McEnroe , 30 , did not want his Oscar-winning wife to resume her acting career . |
| 10 | This delay suggests that he had not intended his angry words to be taken literally , but at least one of his sons was clearly capable of making trouble , while claiming to be doing no more than carrying out his father 's wishes . |
| 11 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 12 | ‘ No , he does not answer his mobile phone . ’ |
| 13 | He did not explain his long silence and they refused to go into detail about the conversations . |
| 14 | he comes home at , at nine o'clock and he , he does n't have a thing to eat and he goes out playing squash , then he 's not eating his main meal till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 15 | He left his cocoon of warmth , closing the folds behind him so that the damp chill of the room would not invade his secret place during his absence . |
| 16 | It need hardly be said that the industrialist of the steam age did not build his own house near the works , as the country factory owners had done . |
| 17 | I do not think those were happy times in Emerson 's marriage and they certainly did not enhance his general image in the sport . |
| 18 | Shilton 's goalkeeping and extra pace in the back four should make them hard to beat next summer , but goals will be a problem if Lineker does not rediscover his finishing touch and the team as a whole lacks subtlety and imagination . |
| 19 | Fleetingly Theodora wondered whether the ironic tone was further evidence that the Bishop was generally thought not to know his own clergy . |
| 20 | Pulling it open would be too great a risk and Turner could not trust his own hands to hold the bag steady . |
| 21 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 22 | And she still could not stomach his physical dirtiness , his extraordinary , extravagant , almost passionate dirtiness . |
| 23 | Labour 's Alan Milburn has accused Tory Michael Fallon of not understanding his own department 's figures . |
| 24 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 25 | This paradoxical state of affairs was demonstrated to British television viewers last summer by the odd spectacle of Home Office junior minister David Mellor stepping gingerly between rows of coca plants , while on a worldwide anti-drugs fact-finding tour , anxious not to offend his Bolivian government official guide by damaging any young plants . |
| 26 | Marxism rationalized Ceauşescu 's resentments against the new Romania of the inter-war period , but it did not abolish his pre-modern attitudes . |
| 27 | Cameron did not doubt his old bogeyman . |
| 28 | His eyes slid round to look at her , but he did not pursue his earlier tirade . |
| 29 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 30 | I did not catch his last words ; perhaps he said , ‘ … of others ’ . |