Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 2 | The form before him did n't re-dissolve however , for which fact Gentle was only half glad . |
| 3 | Even the thought of sharing a bed with him did n't seem so threatening when he was being kind . |
| 4 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 5 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 6 | He tried not to look either left or right . |
| 7 | as if this was some peculiar new word he 'd not heard before . |
| 8 | Something must have told him that he 'd not said quite the right thing , for he looked at Zeinab uneasily afterwards . |
| 9 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd not got on at Didcot , though . |
| 11 | They parted nine years ago and the split distressed him so much he vowed not to get seriously involved with another woman for a very long time . |
| 12 | Angalo was the same , but more than being Outside he hated not going fast . |
| 13 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 14 | But jobs were hard to find and he decided not to resign then but to wait a few weeks until he found another job . |
| 15 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 16 | Then the buyer lost money because of the Gulf crisis , and the price of land was falling so he chose not to go through with the contract . |
| 17 | The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability . |
| 18 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 19 | ‘ I should be sorry for him if he did not land more in the thorns than in the flowers — that 's all . ’ |
| 20 | He did not benefit much , scoring 23 before he snicked Snell 's out-swinger , as he did in the first innings , to be caught by the keeper . |
| 21 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 22 | CHRISTOPHER Gable says he did not set out to deliberately shock . |
| 23 | He did not care much for fun just now . |
| 24 | Anyhow , he did not care much . |
| 25 | He did not care how this made Phyllisia feel . |
| 26 | He did not feel very well and he felt that some air was called for . |
| 27 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 28 | It was good to be angry ; when he was angry he did not feel so afraid . |
| 29 | Angel was glad to be at home , and yet he did not feel so much part of the family as he used to . |
| 30 | If he did not feel so dreadful , Harry would tell the fellow just what he could do with his bedside wit . |