Example sentences of "he do [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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31 | He did not offer any alternative explanation for apparent design , but left the question open . |
32 | Yet , faced with the necessity for resolute leadership , at this time of trial , Sir Patrick could only declare his satisfaction with the present policy and say he did not anticipate many changes . |
33 | Talking to reporters in Magherafelt , the scene of the latest bombing last night , Sir Patrick said he was satisfied the present security policy was adequate and he did not anticipate many changes . |
34 | Besides , being so late in the season he did not anticipate any difficulty ; although there was something else to which he had not given any thought . |
35 | He did not regard such experiences as without worth : |
36 | 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 . |
37 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
38 | He did not do that any more . |
39 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
40 | Charles Boag-Thomson , QC , for the father , said to the girl : ‘ Daddy tells me he is very upset because he did not do these things . ’ |
41 | He did not give much for Beales 's chances of getting in and out of the building unremarked . |
42 | He did not register much surprise at this important discovery , but it needs to be borne in mind that he supposed that he had reached islands near the eastern shores of Asia rather than a land mass inaccessible to the descendents of Noah ! |
43 | Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event . |
44 | But he did not waste much time . |
45 | He did not waste any energy in trying to break free of the mask , because he knew it to be pointless ; the Robemaker 's dark enchantments were seldom broken and he knew , as well , that there would be far worse torments ahead . |
46 | 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 . |
47 | He did not think many of them bright ( but the record afterwards shows that several were very bright ) . |
48 | He did not think much of the lectures . |
49 | Probably he did not think this likely to happen . |
50 | He did not place any constraints on input . |
51 | In a letter to Herbert Read , dated " 16 February " ( probably written in 1925 ) he described a racial prejudice from which he was not immune — although he did not specify that prejudice , its nature is clear from the context , in which he offered Disraeli as an example of what he meant . |
52 | He did not sleep that night as he was too worked up with what had happened . |
53 | He did not mention this possibility to Emily . |
54 | ‘ Pimm 's … ’ she said huskily , grateful he did not ask any painful questions , questions she could not have answered . |
55 | I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . |
56 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
57 | From across the street a man in a parked car watched him , but he did not know that . |
58 | In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse , but he did not know that . |
59 | He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique . |
60 | as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty ! |