Example sentences of "his [noun sg] did not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of those who saw the General in the weeks after his resignation did not come away with the impression that he was on the edge of his seat waiting to be asked back . |
| 2 | His brief judgments were conscientiously prepared , but his heart did not seem to be in the job . |
| 3 | Bush for his part did not refer to them as " hostages " until Aug. 20 , when he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that the Iraqi attack on Kuwait was " a ruthless assault on the very essence of international order and civilized ideals " , and condemned the detention of hostages for having violated " all norms of international behaviour " as well as the tenets of Islam and traditions of Arab hospitality . |
| 4 | His decision did not mean that he had abandoned his commitment to persuasion and conversion ; it was the principle of non-violence and not coercion which informed the spirit of his actions . |
| 5 | Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote . |
| 6 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 7 | The fears expressed early in Gow 's career regarding the possible effects of his teaching did not prove entirely vain ; his dryness and severity antagonized a number of his pupils , and the austerity of the regime at Trinity encouraged alarming departures from that quality by lesser scholars in certain other places . |
| 8 | The fact that he had little confidence in his horse did not help . |
| 9 | Mozart was no doubt a good Catholic , but his religion did not weigh heavily upon him . |
| 10 | His religion did not prove a handicap , although his scrupulous conscience never made life easy for him , and his philosophy of broadcasting , set out in neat lectures , was very different from that of Greene , or of Baron Hill of Luton , his first chairman . |
| 11 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 12 | He was lodged , at some expense , in a progressive asylum where he would be looked after by skilled doctors , but his condition did not improve . |
| 13 | He claimed one prisoner who suffered a fractured skull may have to undergo neuro-surgery if his condition did not improve . |
| 14 | Grégoire missed Edouard ; his concentration did not improve . |
| 15 | But his talent did not go entirely unnoticed . |
| 16 | His assailant did not come out of the affair unscathed . |
| 17 | At a meeting of the commissars of the Roslavl' garrison the military commander of the town hospital admitted that the political cell in his institution did not really exist , although there were occasional discussions of newspaper articles . |
| 18 | Dexter noticed his boss did not suggest Lancaster address her by her Christian name in return : she only encouraged such informality from the victims of crime rather than its possible perpetrators . |
| 19 | Jeanne was there , proud of Modigliani , although as usual his work did not sell . |
| 20 | Bentley 's group theory postulated that the study of politics was the study of the conflict between groups , although his work did not refer to organised interest groups only but to groups with shared views . |
| 21 | Born the same year as Joseph Conrad [ q.v. ] , his reputation became established earlier , though his work did not retain the same general literary esteem . |
| 22 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 23 | He was murdered in 1969 and his assassin did not hesitate to put the blame on the ‘ big men ’ . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 25 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 26 | Yet , as Mrs Pember Reeves observed , despite the inequitable division of resources and the apparent selfishness of the father , his diet did not seem overly luxurious for a working man . |
| 27 | The two policemen who were shown into his room did not appear to be daunted by this . |
| 28 | Those Russians who had taken his room did not pursue , but from the upper storey and outbuildings at the back came the curses , shots and screams of men in mortal combat . |
| 29 | Edward 's dirty clothes were in a pile beside his bed but his embarrassment did not interest her . |
| 30 | The London captain , David Pegler , said afterwards he was disappointed that his team did not play to their full potential , and their coach , Dick Best , felt the same . |