Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals .
2 Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye .
3 French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface .
4 That this tolerant attitude should have resulted in his being called an Anekāntavādin , or a believer in many doctrines , is not surprising , but it did not disturb him in the least .
5 It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place .
6 However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’
7 Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant .
8 Despite a diary mix-up , my unexpected arrival on a Saturday did not perturb him in the slightest .
9 They did not discover him till a fortnight later .
10 He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing .
11 But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment .
12 But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy .
13 Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution .
14 that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl .
15 Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client .
16 She did not share Baldwin 's intellectual or aesthetic tastes , and she did not accompany him on the long walks which were a staple part of his recreation in Worcestershire or at Aix .
17 Unfortunately , the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point .
18 An awareness of God 's contrivance in the intricate designs of nature might confound the atheist , but it did not point him toward the God who had entered into covenant with sinful humanity .
19 Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public .
20 This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed .
21 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
22 We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela .
23 I want to tell the world tonight that they did not kill him in the name of Ireland .
24 I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’
25 His handful of Masses , three of them ‘ parodies ’ of motets by his teacher Mouton , do not show him as an innovator .
26 I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’
27 ‘ I do not see him as a killer .
28 ‘ If someone has done you wrong , do not repay him with a wrong .
29 And I did n't think him in the least like the Beast in the fairy tale although his hair and beard need a little trimming perhaps .
30 It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie .
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