Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] him [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 2 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 3 | His parents did n't send him here to have the teachers live his life for him . ’ |
| 4 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 6 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 7 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 8 | He thinks it 's because of the sausages that people do n't like him enough to ask him to tea ; but it is n't really . |
| 9 | He felt angered that he had not been told ; that Hal had not trusted him enough to tell him . |
| 10 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 11 | In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function . |
| 12 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |