Example sentences of "not [vb infin] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Premier John Major has said he will not sack his chancellor before the Spring Budget its is very likely he will be forced to dismiss him soon after . |
| 2 | The Cambridge philosopher of religion on the board refused to vote for Ramsey for he did not think his work up to standard — the Cambridge philosophers never forgave the ‘ irrationality ’ which was a streak in his first and most original book . |
| 3 | Hoomey , for a moment or two , was tempted to say , ‘ Come back with me and we 'll watch the soccer replay on the box , ’ but he did not think his mother would approve of Nails — not if she knew . |
| 4 | ‘ We do not think his mental state will deteriorate immediately without medication , but we would obviously be anxious to have him back . ’ |
| 5 | Although he was engaged in a heated discussion with a journalist about the way the tour of Korea had been reported , it is unlikely that he would have said anything that he did not think his employer , the Princess of Wales , wanted known . |
| 6 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 7 | The marketing man on the other hand is full of enthusiasm for this latest onslaught on the market and most certainly does not think his new " baby " is at all routine . |
| 8 | I do not think his remarks later in his judgment detract from this finding . |
| 9 | And he made a noise as if he were splitting wood , and I was astonished that he did not dislocate his shoulder , and the vigour of his arm terrified me … |
| 10 | The child sees them and talks about them ; but this does not affect his beliefs . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Taylor 's ‘ boss ’ Peter Swales last night insisted the public revelation of the England manager 's feud with Lineker will not affect his position . |
| 12 | The judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech , and held that it did not affect his primary conclusion as stated above . |
| 13 | He said that the few holes they had dug and refilled would not affect his crop and , more importantly , they were the best ‘ scarecrows ’ he 'd ever known ! |
| 14 | These might include the character and needs of an area , but could not encapsulate the terms on which an applicant would conduct his business if those terms did not affect his fitness to hold the licence . |
| 15 | What is , however , essential is that Posidonius was very worried about the social turbulence of his time , even if it did not affect his home island , Rhodes , as seriously as the Greek mainland . |
| 16 | And he said the less grandiose surrounding would not affect his judgment . |
| 17 | L. K. Advani , president of the Bharatiya Janata Party , on whose parliamentary support Janata Dal depended , also voiced support , while E. M. S. Namboodiripad , general secretary of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) , another source of essential parliamentary support , expressed the view that the affair was an internal matter which would not affect his party 's attitude to the government . |
| 18 | It would be independent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) structure , but Kohl said that the co-operation with France would not affect his country 's commitments to NATO and Mitterrand said that the corps was not meant as a rival to NATO . |
| 19 | She looked back at him , but this time he did not lower his eyes or tap his spoon against his empty cup . |
| 20 | For the account of the family portrait painter who ‘ did not spare his colours ’ , see Goldsmith 's The Vicar of Wakefield , chap . |
| 21 | Dalyell did not pitch his ambitions at too lowly a level , telling the deputy of the Duke of Argyll that |
| 22 | Just because he is a professor of medicine at Cambridge does not make his findings unquestionable . |
| 23 | He was gelded and given time to mature a little before being asked to race , and he did not make his debut until 23 February 1929 . |
| 24 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |
| 25 | Unfortunately this logic did not make his task any easier . |
| 26 | He would not make his judgement blind , |
| 27 | Dr Einon says : ‘ What is absolutely certain is that playing the game for this length of time did not make his scores worse . ’ |
| 28 | The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral . |
| 29 | Why then did Anselm not make his support of Henry conditional on concessions for the liberty of the Church comparable to the charter of liberties which the baronage had obtained ? |
| 30 | Anselm supported Henry , and he did not make his support conditional on Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees . |