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

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31 Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered .
32 ‘ Rachel , ’ he said bitingly , ‘ you 're not to see him again ! ’
33 His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months .
34 In the event , his twelve Tests proved a singularly unhappy period as he lost four and drew eight ; he insisted that the responsibility did not affect him but his form declined — partly at least through a back injury — and his performances varied from moderate to dismal .
35 ‘ When Limpar has a poor game for Sweden , he knows he will get picked for the next match so it does not affect him .
36 Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly .
37 He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing .
38 The agency did not oblige him .
39 Artai will not pardon him , ’ Alexei said .
40 He ‘ saw ’ himself , ludicrously ill-dressed for the narrow and rock-tumbled track , gaping like a foppish caricature of the Lake Tourist : but that did not unsettle him .
41 They 'd not spare him .
42 But the doctor did not spare him .
43 The only effect of the agreement was to give Foakes time to pay and not to forgive him anything .
44 Cooke said : ‘ Ian suffered haematoma and we decided not to risk him .
45 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 .
46 His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented .
47 She raged to Ferdinando about this Dr Grisanowsky , and even the assurance that he was a friend of Miss Blagden 's did not make him more acceptable in her eyes .
48 But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister .
49 Keir Hardie joined Labour because the Liberals would not make him , a miner , a parliamentary candidate .
50 Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer .
51 It does not make him docile or lazy , nor does it interfere with his sexual activities .
52 I guessed , but did not make him confirm my guess .
53 It did not make him feel any cleaner .
54 He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her .
55 The metaphor does not in itself debase the theatre , and although Shakespeare is using plays and actors to present insincerity or hypocrisy that does not make him or them corrupt : the medium is not the same as the message .
56 It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him .
57 Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook .
58 After all , we have no proof against him , and if we can not make him talk , this mystery will never be solved .
59 Mere negligence on the part of the recipient with respect to the safe custody of the thing will not make him liable .
60 negligently allowing the goods to be stolen ) would not make him liable for conversion though if he were a bailee of the goods he might be liable in detinue in such circumstances .
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