Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt he probably did n't know what feelings were any more . |
| 2 | Deep in his heart he knew he just did n't have the nerve to give up everything — his home , his family , his fortune — to return to a country he thought he loved . |
| 3 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 4 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 5 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 6 | Matthew realized he still did n't know what this was all about . |
| 7 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 8 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 9 | Jimmy Warren , who was apparently the only witness actually to see him fall , said he also had n't noticed anything untoward about Len that morning . ’ |
| 10 | At the inquest they said he probably had n't intended to kill himself because he had a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 11 | But the judge Mr Charles Harris said he simply did n't believe him . |
| 12 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |