Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] he [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him .
2 Sir Anthony Browne reported from Surrey that he would have thought it hard to get the money in so quickly had he not experienced the goodwill of the people ; and Sir Thomas Darcy claimed that men were actually saying , ‘ if this be too little his Grace shall have more ’ .
3 Knowing Christopher , she has judged it right to leave him to make his own attempts , though had he not succeeded she would probably have joined him and discussed the solution with him .
4 His words implied that there were two grades of fidelity : one which obliged a fidelis to promote his lord 's interests in all things , and another that simply bound him not to injure him .
5 ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future .
6 Even had he not , he might have supported with more equanimity that defeat .
7 Seeing the shock she had caused , she then told him not to be so rattled .
8 Else told 'im not to be disgustin' , and now every night there 's a terrible row before they go to bed — our bedroom 's right underneath theirs — and Else says she wo n't sleep in the same bed with 'im until 'e washes 'imself . ’
9 Yet had he not had signs enough ?
10 Why else had he not remained beside her ?
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