Example sentences of "he [verb] [not/n't] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |
| 2 | No he has n't at all . |
| 3 | He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh . |
| 4 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 5 | Jesus said he came not for such ‘ virtuous ’ people but to give hope to those who were aware of their need of God . |
| 6 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 7 | After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about . |
| 8 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 9 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 10 | The evidence is overwhelming that he did not at this stage contemplate a coalition government . |
| 11 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 12 | Wilfrid withdrew to Ripon and , although he acted on occasion as bishop for Wulfhere among the Mercians and even ordained priests and deacons in Kent , he did not at this time exercise episcopal functions north of the Humber ( HE III , 28 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 14 ) . |
| 13 | He did not after all suggest passing conduct of the investigation over to Duroc 's police , which suggested less confidence in them , or more in Thiercelin , than the latter had anticipated . |
| 14 | On the surface he was a very matter-of-fact man , and he did n't at all like rehearsing ; but he was a good musician . |
| 15 | ‘ I see , ’ he commented quietly , and , from what Leith could gather , he did n't at all like what he saw . |
| 16 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 17 | He did n't when he was eighteen and he did n't in 1979 at Lytham . |
| 18 | I 'm might say , what I 'm , I 'm not saying that film but in some , in some cases he do n't , you know , there has always been he do n't in this a lot of people . |
| 19 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 20 | He had not at that time known that specific request for permission to shoot at Yugoslavs in support of Military Government had come from Gen Keightley at 5 Corps in Austria . |
| 21 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 22 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 23 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 24 | The accused may be guilty even though he does not in ordinary language obtain a service . |
| 25 | ‘ Only he does n't at all believe in God . ’ |
| 26 | And he , he does n't at all now . |
| 27 | And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies . |
| 28 | What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes not from southern China but from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand . |