Example sentences of "nor [verb] he [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 2 | He showed no surprise at her obviously unsuccessful attempt to run , nor did he even comment on it . |
| 3 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 4 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 5 | Nor did he particularly care . |
| 6 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 7 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 8 | Nor did he ever measure more energy in the bangs and heat than he put in from the electricity supply . |
| 9 | Joel Swanson did not understand , nor did he ever expect to understand , exactly what was going on , but the kind of activity he seemed to be hearing about , in snatches only , was more or less exactly what he 'd expect from his wife 's relatives . |
| 10 | But Baccy never used a curse word , nor did he ever take the briar pipe out of his mouth despite having abandoned the tobacco habit on joining the church at the age of eighteen . |
| 11 | He never sought to crush you , nor did he ever take refuge in insult or invective . |
| 12 | Nor does he now believe in an inevitable outcome : ‘ He that hath the worst cause may sometimes have the best success . ’ |
| 13 | Nor does he always succeed in persuading us that Rimsky Korsakov was altogether wrong in thinking Mussorgsky 's orchestration ineffective . |