Example sentences of "he [verb] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He feels not in the least jaded by his winter , refreshed more . |
| 32 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 33 | He had n't hit her , or snatched her camera , but stood square to her , holding his hands up as if he knew not to , bouncing on the balls of his feet , while Jean-Claude and his group looked on , keeping very still , and Miranda wondered , for a moment , if the camera were rolling , for she felt on display under George 's attack . |
| 34 | As a heterosexual role model , he could do so much that is positive towards an end to prejudice , but he chose not to . |
| 35 | He did n't seem to hear , or rather he chose not to . |
| 36 | He chose not to , not because he was n't enjoying it , he loved it , but he chose not to because he knew he would lose and part of the reason knew he would lose was because he sacked Douglas MacArthur . |
| 37 | He chose not to , not because he was n't enjoying it , he loved it , but he chose not to because he knew he would lose and part of the reason knew he would lose was because he sacked Douglas MacArthur . |
| 38 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 39 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 40 | He professed not to be worried about it and his colleagues agreed . |
| 41 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 42 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 43 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 44 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 45 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 46 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 47 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |
| 48 | When he rose from his knees , helping himself up by the rim of her altar , newly draped in celebration of her return , and expectation of her continued residence , he did not at once leave her . |
| 49 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 50 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 51 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 52 | Well he he he was a sinful person , as we all are erm , I think he did not as the way I understand it , you know Jesus came perfect in everything but he had a he had a a message to give and he could give it better , I think because he had experienced so many things . |
| 53 | He did not in fact inherit the title until 1705 , but a love of hunting he certainly did . |
| 54 | If we do pay attention to his thought we feel we are listening to a public orator of unimpeachably orthodox Christian principles , a Poet Laureate in training — he did not in fact attain this honour until the reign of Queen Victoria in 1843 . |
| 55 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 56 | A rumour of his death circulated in 1230 , but he did not in fact die until late 1235 or 1236 . |
| 57 | Angel explained that he did not in fact wish to enter the Church like his brothers , because the Church 's views were too strict and did not allow free thinking . |
| 58 | Husameddin 's circumstantial statement that Molla Fenari passed Ramadan 821 in the Zayniyya medrese in Cairo presumably derives from some source and , if true , would to some degree strengthen the case for Husameddin 's interpretation of the signature in so far as it would show that Molla Fenari did leave unusually early for the pilgrimage which he did not in fact make until 822 . |
| 59 | In this writer 's view , Franco 's response showed that he understood it well enough , but behaved as though he did not in order to avoid direct confrontation with the Germans and , at the same time , to slow the war down . |
| 60 | It has been suggested that because Rolle does not make use of Richard of St Victor 's fourth stage , insatiabilis the love that can never be satisfied because of the inexhaustible nature of God , he did not in fact enter so profound a mystical experience as others . |