Example sentences of "he [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going and having a few meals with him did n't seem evil or furtive in any way . |
| 2 | In evidence to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs on July 11 , 1990 , Francis Maude , then a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibilities for Hong Kong , stated that with regard to the influx of Vietnamese " boat people " into the colony , he did not exclude mandatory repatriation in future and said that the voluntary scheme was working well . |
| 3 | Derek Young was exceptionally controlled in his demeanour and general behaviour , unconsciously fearing another disaster like the loss of his brother if he did not exercise sufficient control . |
| 4 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 5 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 6 | He did not feel well . |
| 7 | The second night he did not feel well and suffered severely from sleepiness . |
| 8 | But he did not feel silly about being so careful . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His wife was lurking in the basement all the time Eleanor was there , so that he did not feel safe getting close . |
| 11 | In spite of the alcohol and the fatigues of the day , he did not feel sleepy when he got back to his bed-sitter . |
| 12 | He did not feel hungry , and the alcohol sent his imagination soaring into the smoky roof beams , so that he lost the thread of the story Ratagan was telling him — the one about the Dwarf and the Firewood , he thought muzzily . |
| 13 | He did not feel afraid of the ghost and tried to speak to him , but the figure was sad and morose as if struck by a remorseless tragedy . |
| 14 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 15 | All the same he did not feel inclined to reveal that the fish was not only for Faustina — who was never called ‘ pussy ’ — but also for his and his wife 's supper . |
| 16 | Sartre is reported to have said that he did not feel free without a thousand francs in his pocket ; this is clearly a freedom which can only be enjoyed by a few . |
| 17 | Johnson 's famous comment about Kit Smart suggests that some people were actually content with their dirt : ‘ Another charge was , that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it ’ . |
| 18 | though he did not want Lindy to know that they listened until they heard a noise again Then Bill laughed . |
| 19 | As Charlie was forbidden the A.R.R.U. , he did not stay pale-green long . |
| 20 | There was not a lot of point in bringing these gifts , since her father 's allotment kept them well supplied with fresh vegetables ( although he did not grow sweet peas , considering them more trouble than they were worth ) . |
| 21 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 22 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 23 | Although he did not assume priestly powers , he did act as a ‘ lay bishop ’ with the right to define articles of faith . |
| 24 | It goes without saying that he did not serve scrambled eggs with smoked haddock , he cooked the haddock first , flaked it , and mixed it with the beaten eggs before cooking them . |
| 25 | Harold was pleased that it had been arranged , but he did not arrive unaccompanied since Haines was with him . |
| 26 | As he finally demonstrated over Cuba , he did not think Communist domination was worth the ruin of civilization . |
| 27 | He did not approach her sexually ; he did not pretend grand passion ; he wanted to share his interest in Møn with another who had a similar love of the island . |
| 28 | To put Saussure 's point in a different way , we can take as an illustration an area of language to which he did not pay particular attention , but which subsequent theorists have considered significant : that of colour terminology . |
| 29 | He did not appear flattered . |
| 30 | He did not mention Labour and even refrained from a sneer at the opinion pollsters . |