Example sentences of "[adv] that he [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel remarked gloomily that he did n't suppose it would make the programmes any better , but in a way it did . |
| 2 | Arthur watched him , pulled in his stomach , listened to the loudspeaker to hear how the performing dog was doing , and thought seriously enough that he had n't seen Fred so exhilarated since last August at Blackpool . |
| 3 | Empty house , chagrin perhaps that he had n't heeded her theme , loss of face with the TV company , negligent children ? |
| 4 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I think erm some of us were a bit disappointed perhaps that he did n't erm find erm a woman to put into his cabinet . |
| 6 | The pronunciation he knows gets in the way , so that he does n't really see what he 's written down . |
| 7 | The one who goes f fi Who 's going to go second goes out so that he does n't hear anything and erm and then they change over er after thirty minutes . |
| 8 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 9 | Well , oh yes , but that 's , that 's for his phone so that he does n't need a he does n't need hands so he can hold the steering wheel when he answers the phone . |
| 10 | Now just in case you think I 'm sinking into the role of a self-righteous preacher , who enjoys telling other people off about their sins , so that he does n't have to bother about his own , |
| 11 | He tried to make his voice gentle so that he did n't antagonize her . |
| 12 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 13 | The long corridors of the Bastille were hardly convenient for Pavarotti , for whom a dressing-room was created nearer the stage , so that he did n't have to walk too far . |
| 14 | Still , he had been treated fairly in Ballyjamesduff , so that he did n't need to go seeking his next bite before breakfast . |
| 15 | He 'd lied about so much else , and it was quite clear now why he 'd wanted to know so much about Ryan , where he was , what he 'd done ; he 'd wanted to know how much or how little Ryan had told her so that he did n't make the same mistakes . |
| 16 | Anything so that he did n't connect Lori with the jade . |
| 17 | And she used to tell me about her burying it with her father you see , the sacks of malt so that he did n't find it . |
| 18 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 19 | because erm , I know he had a lot , he 'd like try to buy everything in property so that he did n't actually have a lot of cash |
| 20 | She remembered uneasily that he had n't said a word about it . |
| 21 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 22 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 23 | He wanted more of DeFries ' time as well and the more DeFries saw things going on that he did n't like , the less time he wanted to put in to both of them . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're twenty-two , I think you said , ’ he reminded her when she would rather that he had n't . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't say he could n't have , just that he did n't . |
| 26 | It 's just that he has n't , to me , changed enough , he 's still stuck up with all these various things . |
| 27 | The Prince 's racing manager , Grant Pritchard-Gordon , said : ‘ He has run three times on soft and each run has proved conclusively that he does n't like it . ’ |
| 28 | When he introduced me to her , just before the wedding , he sort of … well , he did n't come out and say it , but he got the message over that he did n't want her to know I was gay . |
| 29 | It is not that he does n't care , just that his sense of values are different — not better , not worse , just different . |
| 30 | Not that he does n't trust them . |