Example sentences of "he [verb] not [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not dispute this , but he was troubled . |
| 2 | No , he did not want this strange , wild boy at all . |
| 3 | He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other . |
| 4 | But since his principal concern was with the psychological effect of poetry on the reader , he did not carry this sort of analysis very far . |
| 5 | He did not answer this anxiety , feeling no cruelty in letting it dangle . |
| 6 | He did not answer this question . |
| 7 | Whilst Lakatos did propose what was intended to be a universal criterion of rationality or scientificity , he did not regard this criterion as a consequence of logic alone , or somehow God-given . |
| 8 | The reason he did not start this game was that , as Mr Wilkinson put it ‘ he did not get a kick ’ , when Leeds were beaten 4–0 , their heaviest defeat of the season , by Manchester City a week earlier . |
| 9 | Probably he did not think this likely to happen . |
| 10 | He did not mention this possibility to Emily . |
| 11 | If he did not follow this code then he was not a Bwana Shauri of the Masai tribe . ’ |
| 12 | He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this . |
| 13 | He did not say this as if he was asking Caspar as if six Humans might be possible or even negotiable . |
| 14 | What is perhaps surprising , if it is the case that Beccaria was moved by humane sentiments towards the individual offender , is that he did not use this argument more often . |
| 15 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 16 | No , he did not like this at all . |
| 17 | Or ( he did not like this thought ) were they winding him up ? |
| 18 | He did not lighten this rebuke with a smile . |
| 19 | Commenting that he did not read this extract from the judgment of Dixon J. as displacing the general principle stated by Fry J. in Bainbrigge v. Browne , 18 Ch.D. 188 , 196 , Fox L.J . |
| 20 | He did not trust this new wave of optimism . |
| 21 | The Salvadorean Government said the attack on the hotel was a bid to kidnap Mr Joao Baena Soares , secretary-general of the Organisation of American States , who was in the country on a peace mission , but the OAS chief said he did not believe this . |
| 22 | The letters to Greeves suggest that he did not find this part of a Christian 's duty very easy ( 'Daily Castration Prevents Master Bation' ) . |
| 23 | He did not enjoy this mission . |
| 24 | The transfer to Florence Colliery was very close to Hem Heath and equally accessible to Mr Jones 's home but he did not accept this transfer , left and claimed redundancy . |
| 25 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 26 | He does not do this by behaving as if it were his personal project , but by quietly ensuring that things get done as decided . |
| 27 | Unlike Mr Melding , he does not regard this campaign as a stepping stone on the route to Westminster , but sees it as an extension of his involvement in local politics . |
| 28 | He does not mention this book , but he does quote Lewis to the effect that ‘ nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric , in its modern form , would have been meaningless . ’ |
| 29 | I think there must be a period for a start when the office or elsewhere is a bit on the nervous and inefficient side as smokers are deprived , but he does not mention this . |
| 30 | However , he does not justify this suggestion by giving the criteria for classifying a mode of expression as a rhetorical device . |