Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd better not switch it on till he was in the wood . |
| 2 | Making two shots at it before he could manage the switch , he wondered if he 'd better not drink any more . |
| 3 | Then Louie grins and says : ‘ He is welcome to drink here but he 'd better not choose the chair with its back to the door . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd better not let him loose . ’ |
| 5 | He did not however assemble the parts — perhaps because it would have involved , to be consistent , a complete revision of all his earlier work . |
| 6 | Tolkien saw the problem of evil in books as in realities , and he told his story at least in part to dramatise that problem ; he did not however claim to know the answer to it . |
| 7 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 8 | He did not yet have a chancery of his own , but it seems he did have his own chapel , that is , a team of household chaplains ( presumably equipped with relics ) . |
| 9 | He had a busy day ahead of him , and although he did not yet know it , he would not be able to get back to bed until nearly twenty-four hours later . |
| 10 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 11 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 12 | As usual on such occasions , Molyneaux looked a little embarrassed and out of place , as if he did not particularly relish the ‘ glad-handing ’ of strangers . |
| 13 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 14 | He once called liberalism a form of bigotry , but he did not particularly mind being called a bigot himself . |
| 15 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 16 | He did not particularly like children , though he liked trains . |
| 17 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 18 | My clients were relieved , but the brothers , George and Mike Stevens , were not , and had made their feelings plain to Andrew Buccleuth in language that he did not normally hear outside the fringe theatre , of which he was a generous patron . |
| 19 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 20 | The jury … found that Constable Laurie was not actuated by malice or direct motive , but had actually been over-zealous ; that he had no reasonable and probable ground for believing that Roche 's house was used for betting , and that he did not honestly believe that he made bets with plaintiff . |
| 21 | He did not even move . |
| 22 | He did not even move . |
| 23 | He did not even think about Greg Martin if he could help it . |
| 24 | It was his chance , but he did not even think to run . |
| 25 | It was as if he did not even feel it , for there was no response . |
| 26 | He did not even appear to get on well with his colleagues . |
| 27 | He did not even care when the teachers stared and some of the bigger boys made rude jokes about her shapely legs and body . |
| 28 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 29 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 30 | But he did not turn , he did not even falter , because his head was up and his feet were pounding . |