Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] him [prep] the " 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 | Despite a diary mix-up , my unexpected arrival on a Saturday did not perturb him in the slightest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 18 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 19 | I want to tell the world tonight that they did not kill him in the name of Ireland . |
| 20 | Paul had not recognized him in the porter 's uniform . |
| 21 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 22 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 23 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 24 | By leaving Brentwoods earlier than anticipated , she had not seen him through the publication of his novel . |
| 25 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 26 | He was neither pallid nor flabby , prison had not marked him in the ways she expected . |
| 27 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 28 | There was a tinge of envy in his tone , for his humdrum childhood home in Croydon had not provided him with the kind of ‘ things ’ his taste now craved . |
| 29 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 30 | Scarlet had understood that she was meant to understand that Brian was a hopeless father and a worthless human being , and she had not told him of the call . |