Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] n't [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a revealing remark , because it shows that he does n't think of himself as being in the business of constructing anything like sentences , though a film sequence is a sort of visual sentence , composed of standard elements inflected in an infinite variety of ways . |
| 2 | On another level , on a completely different level the book is about Freud 's attempt in my erm in the second edition of I used the analogy of a detective story like Sherlock Holmes or something , or something er i i it , it 's an attempt by Freud to reconstruct specific historical events that may or may not have happened , using a kind of detective 's method because Freud picks up tiny little clues like Moses ' name , the fact that he does n't appear to be able to speak the language in the Bible , he always speaks through an interpreter , and in the Bible this , this is explained away by saying . |
| 3 | What you want is for me to stroke your ego by telling you that he does n't compare to you . ’ |
| 4 | Gowie says that he does n't want to be liked . |
| 5 | ‘ He might discuss some business matters with my father , for whom he has a tremendous respect , but apart from the fact that he does n't live at Parkwood any more he never boasts . ’ |
| 6 | If they are a sample of your usual conversation I 'm not surprised that he does n't listen to you . |
| 7 | One of the reasons that Puttnam gets flak from the film industry , particularly from its fringe , is that he does n't argue on their behalf for a government-subsidised industry . |
| 8 | RIDDICK BOWE is so laid back that he does n't look like a man capable of starting a fight , let alone finishing one . |
| 9 | Svidrigailov 's answer , when Raskolnikov asks him Shy do n't you see a doctor ? ’ is that he does n't need to be told he 's ill . |
| 10 | He said to me that he does n't agree with lesbians , thinks they are absolutely disgusting people , etc. , and how two women can find sexual satisfaction with each other he will never know . |
| 11 | The thought made her shudder , but the fact that he had n't referred to the ghastly possibility himself made her wonder if Isabelle had kept her pregnancy a secret from the de Rochefort clan . |
| 12 | He puzzled over that , but he kept remembering the older man 's face , and the sadness in it , and the awful fact that he had n't retaliated in any way . |
| 13 | Yet , given time , he could roll back any given scene like a film and look at it again , stopping and starting the images at will , examining areas and details that he had n't noticed at the time . |
| 14 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 15 | It was odd that he had n't thought about that but immediately it came back to him , the name of the exchange , though Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected . |
| 16 | For those of us who ca n't make Goodison I think R5 has full commentary on the match … infact they interviewed Wilko last night who was saying that he had n't thought about whether or not anyone could catch Scum , but he was only interested in how many points we could get ‘ it 's like the Grand National ’ , he said , ‘ plenty of favourites fall the seconf time round ’ . |
| 17 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 18 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 19 | He was sweating , and the way he held on to me indicated that he did n't want to be left alone . |
| 20 | But my father had such a good heart that he did n't want to be without us . |
| 21 | It went without saying that he did n't want to be seen , but it was worth the extra discomfort of hanging around for the extra information that he might pick up . |
| 22 | To backpedal and tell any part of the truth would be to admit his complicity with the Ashdown girl , which was something that he did n't want to be drawn into ever again . |
| 23 | ‘ He said that he did n't want to be a fashionable doctor . |
| 24 | I guessed that he did n't intervene in my dispute with Shadwell because he wanted the situation to deteriorate further . |
| 25 | Titus Moody , the curmudgeonly New Englander on Fred Allen 's old radio show , used to say in regard to television that he did n't hold with furniture that lights up . |
| 26 | Of Tory Michael Fallon she said she did n't like the fact that he did n't vote for dog registration : ‘ I ca n't understand that . ’ |
| 27 | It was sudden , ’ he murmured blandly , but she noticed that he did n't comment on how long he 'd known him . |
| 28 | McGimpsey confesses that he did n't go to Dornoch with hopes of victory . |
| 29 | His behaviour has n't been odd and speaking to his cell mate this morning it seems that he did n't speak to very many people either . |
| 30 | It was n't exactly like he had to have an appointment , but it was that he did n't fit into the structure . |