Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he do not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 A person is guilty under s.20 of the OAPA ( see later ) when he does not foresee grievous bodily harm but does foresee some harm .
2 A member of the Institute having been found to have been in breach of Bye-law 76(c) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he between 1 January 1985 and 30 March 1992 engaged in public practice contrary to Bye-law 59 when he did not hold a current practising certificate was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs .
3 Admittedly the referee was a foolish fellow who kept re-penalising Swansea for failing to retreat 10 yards when he did not give them the remotest chance to do so .
4 Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group .
5 She could say no more , only after a moment when he did not answer , ‘ Please do n't reproach yourself , my darling , when you have given me back to myself again . ’
6 After all , he was a very clever man , and sometimes , when he did not think she knew , he gave her some very peculiar looks that made her shivery inside .
7 His son Kieran then succeeded him and retained his seat there until 1989 when he did not seek re-election .
8 When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move .
9 He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive .
10 Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder .
11 However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer .
12 However he did not hold the Soviet Union , a long-time Syrian ally , responsible for the exodus , saying that the relationship between Syria and the Soviet Union was " as firm as ever " , but blaming the United States " for playing a major role in the realization of Israeli desires " .
13 There are , moreover , serious complications in the view taken by the later tradition , complications which clearly arise from an attempt to fit Abdulkerim in where he does not belong .
14 His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections .
15 It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it .
16 This is why he does not cut them off , ’ said an aide to the Prince in Bangkok last week .
17 Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday .
18 An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States .
19 We know why he did not answer .
20 Why he did not pay the full amount must remain a mystery .
21 But he has the flu and that is why he did not travel .
22 Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane .
23 Why he did not feel angrier than he did he could not understand .
24 CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont could still be quizzed by MPs on why he did not declare an £18,000 donation from anonymous Tory benefactors to help to pay a legal bill .
25 ‘ That is my conclusion as to why he did not contact anyone . ’
26 He is merely being asked why he did not discuss the matter with Lord King .
27 It is reported that an Oxford don , was asked , in the 1914 war , why he did not volunteer for the defence of civilization .
28 Explaining why he did not foresee a cut in interest rates in the near future , he said : ‘ I have to take into account the needs of savers , many of whom have been writing to me recently , the exchange rate which causes concern to some people — and I believe what people above all want is stability . ’
29 Why he did not sustain the promise of the works of the 1890s is not clear , though it is certainly connected with the change to a much more conservative and less experimental architectural climate in Britain in the 1900s , when there was a revival of baroque and French Renaissance architecture ; it may also be to do with Townsend 's own equivocal and confused attitude towards the value of architectural traditions .
30 When John confirmed his name , he was asked why he did not attend the curate 's services , to which he replied that the man had been appointed under the king 's law and not under God 's law .
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