Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death . |
| 2 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 3 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 4 | He determined not to give Gina any housekeeping this week to make up for his losses . |
| 5 | During 1860–2 he had found his title and ideas for some of the leading incidents , including the story of a young man feigning death and living with an assumed identity , but was unable to set himself to the writing until the autumn of 1863 , when he determined not to begin publication until he had 5 numbers in hand , since he was now writing so slowly , with care and with difficulty . |
| 6 | He decided not to take part in the creation of the United Alkali Co. in 1890 , but amalgamated his company with another midland Leblanc soda manufacturer , Hunt & Sons of Wednesbury , in 1898 to form Chance & Hunt Ltd . |
| 7 | He went not to collect particulars and feed them into a computer , he went to get down on his knees and get himself covered in mud and blood . |
| 8 | Nothing is known of his education except that he did not lay claim to any degree . |
| 9 | He did not deserve death by heavy metal poisoning . |
| 10 | If he did not copy Timagenes he should not be suspected of having copied Posidonius . |
| 11 | He would allow no exceptions to this fundamental rule ; but he did not exclude growth within a framework authoritatively established , and he could help to reshape the future through the men whom he chose as prior . |
| 12 | Frankly , he did not suppose Adam had had anything directly to do with this at all . |
| 13 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 14 | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition . |
| 15 | ( S. ) 468 , where a sentence of four years imprisonment was upheld for robbery of a taxi driver who was threatened with a lighted cigarette and a knife , although he did not suffer injuries comparable with those suffered by the victim in this case . |
| 16 | Like my father he did not suffer fools gladly , and he had an air of considerable authority which belied his great kindness . |
| 17 | But he did not pass Mark . |
| 18 | If only he did not love Madeleine so totally , so hopelessly , he told himself as he drove down Oxford Street towards Marble Arch . |
| 19 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 20 | Bevin told the British House of Commons in February 1946 that he did not want Turkey to become " a satellite state " of the USSR . |
| 21 | He did not want things to go wrong at this stage . |
| 22 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 23 | ( He whispered because — even in his bitterness — he did not want Auntie to overhear . ) |
| 24 | Understandably , I suppose , he did not want Reuters to become embroiled in controversy . |
| 25 | He did not want Eleanor to talk to any of his fellow patients and suss out what sort of hospital he was in . |
| 26 | " He did not want blood on his hands but on ours . |
| 27 | He did not want blood , at any price . |
| 28 | He did not want Irina to become a problem to him , now that he was becoming at least welcome , even necessary , to Marcus . |
| 29 | He did not show disappointment that it was a mere journalist and one who was more interested in a dead artist whose work he had never handled . |
| 30 | Political analysts stated that Borja was able to make the land grants because he did not face re-election . |