Example sentences of "he did 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 | ‘ I should be sorry for him if he did not land more in the thorns than in the flowers — that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 5 | CHRISTOPHER Gable says he did not set out to deliberately shock . |
| 6 | He did not care much for fun just now . |
| 7 | Anyhow , he did not care much . |
| 8 | He did not care how this made Phyllisia feel . |
| 9 | He did not feel very well and he felt that some air was called for . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was good to be angry ; when he was angry he did not feel so afraid . |
| 12 | Angel was glad to be at home , and yet he did not feel so much part of the family as he used to . |
| 13 | If he did not feel so dreadful , Harry would tell the fellow just what he could do with his bedside wit . |
| 14 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 15 | He did not spell out what was meant by a limited period , but he will have to tell Hon. Members how long employees will be covered by TOPS before the Minister winds it up and what chance employees or their representatives will have to influence the outcome of negotiations on the way in which the scheme is to be wound up . |
| 16 | as if Erdle knew something about him , or his background , that he did not want generally known . |
| 17 | His main concern appeared to be that he did not want too many parents to be able to read it because they would find it attractive . |
| 18 | He did not explain why the campaign had suddenly reversed its recently declared position that passports would be needed for more than 300,000 key wage-earners in the colony as well as their families . |
| 19 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 20 | He did not explain why , and this placed a distance between them . |
| 21 | He did not explain how this latter figure squared with McAteer 's figure of two thousand ; Nationalists and Unionists often threw figures at each other in this way but it was not always clear exactly what they meant . |
| 22 | But he did not explain how a government excluding some of the world 's most powerful states could establish its authority — short of a new world war . |
| 23 | He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available . |
| 24 | The view of the hon. Member for South Down ( Mr. McGrady ) was that many things should be left as they are , but he accepted that savings could be made and changes ought to be made , although he did not explain how . |
| 25 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 26 | We were friends but it is a pity he did not make that clear . ’ |
| 27 | With the sedative , Marek drifted into sleep but he did not wake up . |
| 28 | Emmie stroked him , but he did not wake up . |
| 29 | He did not speak again until they were bumping up the track towards the cottage . |
| 30 | He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him . |