Example sentences of "he [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sources close to the talks say he ‘ decided that the people backing him did not have the interests of the club at heart ’ . |
| 2 | And the way Sir William treated him did n't give the lie to the notion . |
| 3 | Allen said he agreed not to bring the children to his house and abided by her rules , including only visiting the children in the hallway of Farrow 's flat . |
| 4 | Although he did not specify how this was to be achieved , he promised not to increase the unpopular goods and services consumption tax ( GST ) . |
| 5 | But what would have happened to him if he 'd not taken the cattle down I do n't know . |
| 6 | Since he could just make out where he was going , he decided not to use the front light , which in any case would be bound to draw attention to him . |
| 7 | A few months later he decided not to publish the book but with tremendous generosity said that I could use whatever I wanted from it . |
| 8 | He decided not to tell the young man where to search . |
| 9 | ‘ She wo n't hurt you , ’ he repeated , but he could feel Willie trembling so he decided not to pursue the matter . |
| 10 | He chose not to perform the piece himself . |
| 11 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 12 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 13 | He chose not to investigate the possibility that there might , after all , be other reasons why he wished to quit his homeland . |
| 14 | Wickham wanted to know whether Hunter-Blair had explained why he chose not to deliver the copy himself . |
| 15 | He chose not to hasten the process by buying . |
| 16 | While he did not glamorize the Munich settlement , he insisted that ‘ the Prime Minister was right to choose the catastrophe of yielding to improper procedure rather than to choose the terrible catastrophe of war . ’ |
| 17 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 18 | Though in time Henry would succeed to a far greater inheritance than either brother , he did not possess the patience to wait . |
| 19 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 20 | He did not set the lamp there that way . |
| 21 | According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% . |
| 22 | According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% . |
| 23 | The MDP leader , Erdenijn Bat-Uul , gave a press conference on Aug. 6 at which he expressed satisfaction with the election results and said that he did not exclude the possibility of the MDP 's participation in a coalition government . |
| 24 | The court held that the keeper was guilty of manslaughter , even though he did not owe the contractual duty to open and close the gate to the victim . |
| 25 | But Finnegan told the court he had never seen a notice to quit — although he did not dispute the arrears . |
| 26 | How far Temple 's aspirations coincided with reality may be judged by these observations committed to paper in 1962 by a man who had been his native clerk : ‘ To speak the gospel truth ’ , this man recalled , ‘ Mr Temple was very harsh towards the native chiefs … really , he did not spare the rod as far as efficient administration was concerned ; … he was bad-tempered … |
| 27 | But he did not underplay the significance of the biggest steeplechase in the world . |
| 28 | He told Mr Justice Michael Davies and the jury he did not expect the Cossacks to be massacred without trial — the fate of many thousands . |
| 29 | But he did not expect the rice-flail , you know , the sticks joined by a chain . |
| 30 | He did not expect the lodger to return . |