Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she knew he did not deserve it , Charlotte could not suppress a stab of sympathy for him . |
| 2 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 3 | He did not visit her again until the following evening and his first words on entering the room were , ‘ What on earth have you done with Harry ? ’ |
| 4 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |
| 5 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 6 | Not that Eliot harboured any illusions about the efficacy of his work — although Notes … was selling well , he did not expect it to have much influence . |
| 7 | And with a calm purpose that he did not feel he went out into the street . |
| 8 | ‘ I suspect he did not feel he could trust someone , ’ said Cramer delicately . |
| 9 | He did not feel he could write freely if the typescript was readily accessible to his mother . |
| 10 | What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal . |
| 11 | He did not feel he could work on such a project , however , until " Little Gidding " was finished . |
| 12 | He did not feel he ought to throw it away but it must be kept from her sight . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper . |
| 14 | The impulse was so strong that she could hardly believe that he did not feel it too . |
| 15 | In July 1931 the then chairman of A & C Black , Adam Black , turned down an English translation of The Quatrain of Omar Khayyam by a retired Colonel of the Indian Army as he did not feel it was a commercial proposition . |
| 16 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 17 | He did not pass her , however , as she had expected ; but stopped in front of her and touched his hat . |
| 18 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 19 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |
| 20 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 21 | But I did not feel jealous , because I knew he did not love her . |
| 22 | He did not love her as he had done , and nothing else mattered . |
| 23 | He did not love her , because he never loved women . |
| 24 | Wherever she went , there would always be the knowledge deep within her that she loved Rourke , and that he did not love her in return . |
| 25 | He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure . |
| 26 | She waited , having given him the opening , but suggestions of love and marriage — or anything remotely related to them — still remained unspoken , and , sadly , she realised that he did not love her . |
| 27 | In fact , with his book of Spanish Civil War photographs , for the second edition he did not want them retouched ; he wanted the scratches , etc , left in because there was that feeling about it . |
| 28 | Hopkins 's attitude to the publication of his poetry had always been ambivalent , but his habit of sending copies to Bridges indicates that he did not want them lost . |
| 29 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |
| 30 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |