Example sentences of "[noun sg] he do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was all something to do with their thinking he did n't have a proper job , so they said .
2 Most of all , she was the only person he knew to whom he could talk without embarrassment , and it was a help that cycling side by side he did n't have to look at her as he tried to explain .
3 To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel .
4 It was the mixed blood he did n't like , the native Irish in Francis that lived uneasily with all that dour Scots ancestry .
5 He chuckled , pretending to a lightness he did not feel .
6 Paul the apostle taught that Christian love ‘ never fails ’ , and as a result he does not recommend widows or widowers to remarry .
7 He knows something about the murder he does n't want you or me to find out about . ’
8 The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase .
9 They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery .
10 His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there .
11 He can record memorable rounds , personal triumphs and every bit of his progress in this bound journal mind he does n't cheat .
12 Once Pip has found out that Magwitch is actually his benefactor he does n't want to accept any more money as he feels it is n't right .
13 If there is a rule he does not like , he will form a exception .
14 It was a devastating headache but , oddly enough , as a rule he did n't mind it .
15 Margaret 's oldest son is nine and he knows that Richard is in prison , but that he 's there for a crime he did n't commit .
16 He spent a total of four and a half months in custody for a crime he did not commit .
17 However , there are still many who feel that Beattie is the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice and that he has served almost 20 years for a crime he did not commit .
18 Claudia could see that locking up a Masai for a crime he did not understand was cruel and inhuman .
19 When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not .
20 When Butland measures the ‘ skills and talents ’ of general practice he does not appreciate that they rely on stability and knowledge of the patient .
21 Naisbitt is a shrewd observer and in practice he does not limit himself strictly to the confines of content analysis .
22 Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing .
23 This decision was described as exceptional in Alexander v Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd ( 1990 ) , where the High Court reasserted the traditional principle that the courts should refuse to grant an injunction to restrain a breach of contract which would force an employer to provide work for an employee he does not wish to employ .
24 He found it difficult to know how to react ; when he received a bonus he did n't tell them , it would have seemed unfair .
25 His fellow bishops addressed him as ‘ lord ’ ( a compliment he did not reciprocate ) .
26 He 's been bailed on condition he does n't go within ten miles of Swindon .
27 Christopher Tucker , 29 , of Hounslow , west London , who will be sentenced later this month , was allowed bail on condition he does not enter any of the fast food chain 's stores .
28 Musician Lake was bailed at Marylebone , London , on condition he did not see the boy .
29 Franco had always had this power to part the curtains on a scene he did not want to see .
30 ‘ It 's a wonder he did n't go mad .
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