Example sentences of "that he [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind , I ai n't sayin' 'e do n't 'ave 'is good points , nor that 'e do n't come up with a cuddle and a present sometimes . |
| 2 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I know nothing about his treatment of women ; erm all I know about is that he chose not to elect a woman to the cabinet . |
| 5 | Mapanje said that he owed not only his liberty but possibly his life to Amnesty International . |
| 6 | Instead of striking my face and grieving aloud because my hymen was no longer intact , I wondered , ‘ Is it because he 's an Englishman that he does n't feel proud he 's taken my virginity , or is he frightened that now I 'll try to force him to marry me ? ’ |
| 7 | Svidrigailov 's answer , when Raskolnikov asks him Shy do n't you see a doctor ? ’ is that he does n't need to be told he 's ill . |
| 8 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 9 | It is a revealing remark , because it shows that he does n't think of himself as being in the business of constructing anything like sentences , though a film sequence is a sort of visual sentence , composed of standard elements inflected in an infinite variety of ways . |
| 10 | Across the aisle from me a young boy is telling his mother that he does n't like it . |
| 11 | I say no , and hope that he does n't realize that I really have no idea . |
| 12 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 13 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 14 | Still , doing these rather than the outstanding equipment performance reports means that he does n't have to use of the typewriter . |
| 15 | With a hint of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez , Carol brought the house down : ‘ He has a family/He has a home/He 's wearing some new shoes that he does n't quite own/He does n't have work yet/He 's trying hard to get/But he 'll give you his fortune when he has one to give . ’ |
| 16 | MPs knew the Health Secretary did not listen to the patients or the nurses and doctors , he said , but ‘ at least we can seek reassurance in the fact that he does n't pay a blind bit of notice to what his own department is saying either ’ . |
| 17 | To say that he does n't patronise them is a laughable understatement . |
| 18 | One of the reasons that Puttnam gets flak from the film industry , particularly from its fringe , is that he does n't argue on their behalf for a government-subsidised industry . |
| 19 | ‘ The Director-General has said recently that he does n't foresee any of the BBC orchestras being either privatised or abolished . |
| 20 | He would not fear losing the captaincy but , while he has it , he will continue to make quite sure that he does n't fail it . |
| 21 | He would not fear losing the captaincy but , while he has it , he will continue to make quite sure that he does n't fail it . |
| 22 | Gowie says that he does n't want to be liked . |
| 23 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 24 | There is n't much ( if anything ) left at the end of each month for any luxuries — like a night out or any new items of clothes — will always come first to make sure that he does n't miss out on anything . |
| 25 | He 's like a small child who is so busy peering at something that he does n't look where he is going . |
| 26 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 27 | I ask this not because I believe that he does n't care passionately about Mahler 's music — you only have to hear the vocal exhortations with which he galvanises the Boston players at the most intense moments in the score to realise this . |
| 28 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 29 | The man who is so insensitive that he does n't realise what 's happening needs it spelt out to him . |
| 30 | I 'll see that he does n't . |