Example sentences of "he do [not/n't] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 2 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 3 | He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory . |
| 4 | Although Jarman is an avid painter ( he exhibited at the ICA in 1984 ) , he did not feel that that medium could extend beyond ‘ one person 's thing ’ . |
| 5 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 6 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 7 | Rousseau 's tactics in doing battle with ‘ Reason ’ were very simple ; he rejected its validity altogether , and appealed to the emotions — he did not feel that the dictates of Reason and science were true . |
| 8 | He did not feel that the 15 day limit for minutes of the final meeting and responses to issues brought up at it was inadequate . |
| 9 | But he did not feel that she looked upon their amorous exchanges as more than innocent dalliance . |
| 10 | He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way . |
| 11 | He compiled the first useful tables of travel times of seismic phases and used them to show that wave speeds increase smoothly with depth , up to a point where they suffer a sharp decrease , which he identified with the boundary of a central core ‘ possessing radically different physical properties ’ , though he did not conclude that the core was liquid . |
| 12 | By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same . |
| 13 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 14 | By this , he did not mean that truth is simply subjective , merely my own opinion , what I happen to like to regard as true . |
| 15 | When , therefore , Nesselrode said that the European revolutions of 1830 turned Nicholas into " the impartial defender of European equilibrium " , he did not mean that the tsar had decided to back his " impartiality " with force . |
| 16 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 17 | For if he did not assume that " mind " is an exclusive property of the observer , he would have to suppose that the stuff he observes possesses the same qualities of imagination as he claims for himself . |
| 18 | He did not realise that they had learnt to expect food from him , and were simply shouting : ‘ I want my dinner ! ’ |
| 19 | While he was in the stable saddling up his horse , he did not realise that his mother-in-law was only now breaking the news to Sarah that she would be remaining in Leeds . |
| 20 | Where the defendant claims that as a result of intoxication , he did not realise that his conduct was or might be regarded as threatening , abusive or insulting , the magistrates must make a determination as to what they considered that the defendant would have realised had he been sober , and the conclusion that he would have realised will be virtually inevitable . |
| 21 | That is , if the prosecutor proves that the words or material were in fact threatening , abusive or insulting , and if the defendant wishes to assert that he did not realise that this was so , the onus is upon him to raise the issue . |
| 22 | If that is so , the defendant can not be convicted if he raises doubts as to whether or not he realised that the person with whom he was dealing was a policeman , or that he did not realise that what he was doing would make the task of the policeman more difficult . |
| 23 | As a result of Seymour an accused is guilty if he did not realise that there was an obvious risk of some personal injury to another . |
| 24 | In Parmenter the accused confessed to causing injuries to his three-month-old son but said that he did not realise that what he was doing would injure him . |
| 25 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 26 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
| 27 | He did not think that the then bench in the Church were all well qualified to this end . |
| 28 | He did not think that Ramsey would be interested in the load of administration which he would have to carry . |
| 29 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
| 30 | He did not think that a ‘ good artistic work can be the joint production of two minds ’ . |