Example sentences of "he do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gerald , pretending to a savoir faire he did not possess ; ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in … ’ |
| 32 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 33 | One option that he did not possess was the mass medium of radio which he had used so effectively during the war : in April 1947 the prime minister Paul Ramadier prohibited retransmission of de Gaulle 's speeches . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | In GEC 's Patent , the hearing officer held that the initial onus fell on the employer to establish that he did not benefit from obtaining a patent . |
| 37 | Indeed , he did not set out to be comprehensive . |
| 38 | He did not set the lamp there that way . |
| 39 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 40 | Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the ‘ primacy of the interests of the nation state ’ , which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895 ; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such ‘ primacy ’ . |
| 41 | CHRISTOPHER Gable says he did not set out to deliberately shock . |
| 42 | He would allow no exceptions to this fundamental rule ; but he did not exclude growth within a framework authoritatively established , and he could help to reshape the future through the men whom he chose as prior . |
| 43 | According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% . |
| 44 | According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% . |
| 45 | The MDP leader , Erdenijn Bat-Uul , gave a press conference on Aug. 6 at which he expressed satisfaction with the election results and said that he did not exclude the possibility of the MDP 's participation in a coalition government . |
| 46 | In evidence to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs on July 11 , 1990 , Francis Maude , then a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibilities for Hong Kong , stated that with regard to the influx of Vietnamese " boat people " into the colony , he did not exclude mandatory repatriation in future and said that the voluntary scheme was working well . |
| 47 | The court held that the keeper was guilty of manslaughter , even though he did not owe the contractual duty to open and close the gate to the victim . |
| 48 | He paid a debt which he did not owe because we are a debt that we will never be able to pay . |
| 49 | Frankly , he did not suppose Adam had had anything directly to do with this at all . |
| 50 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 51 | He did not care about the money . |
| 52 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 53 | But about this he did not care . |
| 54 | To say that he did not care , however , would be a gross over-simplification . |
| 55 | And Parker so lost that he did not care . |
| 56 | Parker screamed ; he did not care ; he wanted to be heard , but , and he screamed some more , no one came running . |
| 57 | He replied that he did not care and anyway he knew about the Black shooting and there was no truth in what we were saying . |
| 58 | For the moment , he did not care if some vehicle ran him over . |
| 59 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 60 | He did not care whether or not Gunhilda had ever made her profession : she had worn the habit ; she had seemed to understand what Anselm had said about the religious life . |