Example sentences of "he do not [vb infin] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not explain nor enlarge upon the story . |
| 2 | He did not threaten or storm . |
| 3 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ Home directly please , ’ to Murphy and this time he did not sigh or look pained at all , but simply said , ‘ Very good , Miss Alexandra , ’ and obeyed . |
| 5 | He did not excuse or condone his client 's conduct , but argued that the children had not been coerced . |
| 6 | In Wishart 's opinion Minton , despite the gaiety he stimulated , was never happy : he did not complain or evince self-pity but he conveyed a bitter acceptance that , owing to some gross farce on the part of creation , happiness had eluded him . |
| 7 | How it had got to London from Houston he did not know or want to know . |
| 8 | He watched her mouth fall open like an idiot 's , while her hand let the brush clatter to the floor ; she fell sideways , whether in a real or assumed faint he did not know or care . |
| 9 | Though what those powers were that made him think and say such things , he did not know or understand . |
| 10 | It is perhaps surprising that he did not count and find that he had double the actual number present , but he , too , has departed . |
| 11 | Creggan was doing his best to ignore Woil , who he did not trust or like . |
| 12 | C informed of rights — said he did not have or want a solicitor — did not know that solicitor instructed by his family had enquired about him — whether subsequent confession should be excluded under PACE , s. 78 |
| 13 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 14 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 15 | Julia was pleased that he did not tiptoe or whisper , but spoke in his normal voice . |
| 16 | He does not observe or understand them as lessons in natural history , but knows their names and as much about their habits and life-history as he needs for his purpose . |
| 17 | A member who considers that such principles have been breached should be careful that he does not waive or condone the breach . |
| 18 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 19 | The reason why ( to answer an old critical fallacy ) he does not go and ask Desdemona whether she is Cassio 's lover is that , by the end of this scene , he no longer believe what she — or anyone but Iago — would tell him . |
| 20 | Calvin turns a little way around but he does not speak or make eye contact . |
| 21 | He does not look or sound like a party leader , either . |
| 22 | If tolerance is essential to such fiction , then the novelist tolerates , even if he does not defend or excuse , much that is outside the range of other arts , not excluding affectation , pretension , self-contradiction and sin : ‘ among the Filthy , filthy ’ . |
| 23 | And he does not buy or sell heroin ! |