Example sentences of "he did not at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 2 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 3 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 4 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 5 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 6 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 7 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |