Example sentences of "he did not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car in front of him did not budge . |
| 2 | His brother ( Harold ) Julian 's efforts to establish Spanish nationality for him did not succeed . |
| 3 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 4 | Sources close to the talks say he ‘ decided that the people backing him did not have the interests of the club at heart ’ . |
| 5 | The fact that his wife had not accompanied him did not surprise Liza in the least . |
| 6 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 7 | This snappily dressed , half-smiling man with something of the looks of the young Cary Grant about him did not approximate to his vision of a psychiatrist . |
| 8 | Nothing is known of his education except that he did not lay claim to any degree . |
| 9 | But he did not lay a hand on her . |
| 10 | Yet , says Matthew Paris with relish , he did not deserve to be rescued in this way , for he had shown no mercy to others when he himself had been an officer of the Forest . |
| 11 | He did not deserve death by heavy metal poisoning . |
| 12 | Though she knew he did not deserve it , Charlotte could not suppress a stab of sympathy for him . |
| 13 | On balance , Chamberlain would win although he did not deserve to , because Hitler had the Eyeties on his side , and the Eyeties had sent six hundred thousand men to crush Albania and almost been repulsed . |
| 14 | Yet can not the elder referred to in the example be said to have acted morally even though he did not adhere to the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence ? |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’ |
| 17 | In November 1819 Hickman matriculated in Edinburgh , registered with the university , and joined the Royal Medical Society , but he did not graduate . |
| 18 | But he has the flu and that is why he did not travel . |
| 19 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 20 | If he did not copy Timagenes he should not be suspected of having copied Posidonius . |
| 21 | And , unlike Mrs Thatcher , he did not rush to conclusions . |
| 22 | He did not rush to console Alfred , however . |
| 23 | He shaved but he did not wash and his bright , shallow smile was like the contentment of a piglet fresh from the teat . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Chancellor also signalled he did not favour an early cut in interest rates and argued that the decision to impose VAT on fuel had been ‘ logical ’ and would not be reversed . |
| 26 | The Chancellor also signalled he did not favour an early cut in interest rates . |
| 27 | He said that he did not favour an increase in taxation but ‘ when it has to be done it has to be done ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I should be sorry for him if he did not land more in the thorns than in the flowers — that 's all . ’ |
| 29 | Len Murray of the TUC worked hard but was unable to exert power that he did not possess . |
| 30 | Death he did not fear , pride he did not possess ; he had no position or property , living as he did in a tub . |