Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not look him in the eyes . |
| 2 | Maybe I shall hear full soon enough , but I dare not ask him about the poor lady . |
| 3 | ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’ |
| 4 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall not take him to Court . |
| 6 | I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! " |
| 7 | Of all the species of dog in the world I can not place him with ownership of a Yorkie . |
| 8 | I can not remember him at all , whether he was young or old or fat or thin or short or tall or anything . |
| 9 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 10 | And , in the end , she might not lose him after all … |
| 11 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 12 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 13 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
| 14 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 15 | His hatred since was channelled towards Beth , and , in all truth , she could not blame him for it . |
| 16 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
| 17 | She could not link him in her mind with her mother at all , though the two of them had once shared a mother themselves . |
| 18 | She could not face him before then ; nor would society approve of a private evening visit . |
| 19 | It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit . |
| 20 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 21 | And if one thing was certain , it was that she could not get him from here alone . |
| 22 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 23 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 24 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 25 | She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … . |
| 26 | Dick Crossman had been kept out of office or the expectation of it by both Attlee , who could not forgive him for resisting Bevin 's policy towards Palestine , and his successor . |
| 27 | She would not let him off the hook . |
| 28 | She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done . |
| 29 | ‘ You will not find him in Russia . |
| 30 | We should not advise him in what circumstances the claim would be covered under the policy . |