Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] he [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day the rest of the world will catch on that he is not that good , and that Mark Hughes makes him . |
| 2 | Just to know that he was there could bring a smile to the face and to know now that he was n't brought an ineffable sadness to them all . |
| 3 | Then that noise stopped too and he was not sure if he had heard even that . |
| 4 | appointment he erm he let , he let the client take over the the call because he was n't erm prepared enough when he were n't there . |
| 5 | She could have throttled Geoffrey , wriggling in where he was n't wanted . |
| 6 | A month later his down had grown through and he was n't shaking so much . |
| 7 | You said in the staff meeting yesterday that he was n't . |
| 8 | At first , she was afraid that he had not turned up because he was not waiting , as he had promised , by Mr Bishop 's kiosk . |
| 9 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 10 | If they went to the house and saw him move into the door , they 'd turn out the family , look everywhere and he was not to be found . |
| 11 | But the Charlie Bubbles character , which Finney played , his marriage had broken up and he was n't getting on with his kids . |
| 12 | Once the sheer terror subsided and Charles realised both that he was n't going to pass out and that he could manage the lines , he even began to enjoy it . |
| 13 | The steward of a lordship or the master of the royal game might guard the Crown 's interests as a landlord — or put in a deputy to do so but he was not concerned with the collection of taxes , the maintenance of order , and the execution of justice . |
| 14 | Hayek wishes to do so because he is not simply a traditionalist and is seeking to harness his insights to the task of providing a modern , rational reconstruction of liberalism . |
| 15 | You know especially when he 's not . |
| 16 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 17 | The barrister behaved impeccably , and indicated repeatedly that he was not prepared to concede that he had ‘ offended against [ section 19A of the Act of 1985 ] in a way that would entitle your Honour to make an order . ’ |
| 18 | Just higher your chariot blades on a level with his neck and drive past when he 's not looking ? but do n't tell anybody I said so . |
| 19 | The last twenty years of his life were spent in retirement ; indeed , he had to write to the Sunday Times in 1963 to point out that he was not , as they had reported , dead . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd look a right idiot if we organize things on the basis that Vargas is on our side and I get there and he is n't . |
| 21 | So while you might well overhear Eeyore sighing to himself , and know therefore that he is n't trying to mislead anyone , it 's much less likely ( though not of course impossible ) that you 'll overhear Rabbit muttering ‘ There 's honey ’ to himself . |
| 22 | It was years before I worked out that he was n't talking about the cream buns . |
| 23 | And I 've also found out that he 's not interested in fishing |
| 24 | Now I 've found out that he is n't my father I 'm learning to be free for the first time in my life , do you understand ? ’ |
| 25 | She felt that he was not doing well because he was not trying hard enough , and that his teachers were not making him try hard enough . |
| 26 | An energetic and ambitious figure who was recently elected chairman of the local council , Vishwendra Singh has threatened to run independently if he is not selected . |
| 27 | Yet Ellcock , an intelligent man with strong views on the game , graciously allowed the Daily Mail to photograph him ‘ celebrating ’ at home watching Sky TV as Wayne Larkins hit the winning run in the Jamaica Test when he probably felt like crying again because he was not at Sabina Park to share the moment . |
| 28 | Why did you say go away when he was n't on the flowers ? |
| 29 | So I , I , I said I 'd ring him back and , I , this bloke 's supposed to be here before one he 'd got half hour to turn up if he 's not here at one I 'm gon na ring this other one and tell him he can do it . |
| 30 | He for i indicating he 's gon na turn left when he 's not , you for assuming he 's going to turn left when he is n't . |