Example sentences of "not [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly . |
| 2 | But she would not lend him any . |
| 3 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 4 | ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames . |
| 5 | He had asked a great many questions of the exiled Court and he hoped , he said earnestly to Oisin , that they would not think him inquisitive . |
| 6 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 7 | You must not think him ridden with angst just because , for once , he 's agreed to discuss with us the things he normally ignores . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ When Limpar has a poor game for Sweden , he knows he will get picked for the next match so it does not affect him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 12 | The agency did not oblige him . |
| 13 | Artai will not pardon him , ’ Alexei said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 'd not spare him . |
| 16 | But the doctor did not spare him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Keir Hardie joined Labour because the Liberals would not make him , a miner , a parliamentary candidate . |
| 21 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
| 22 | It does not make him docile or lazy , nor does it interfere with his sexual activities . |
| 23 | I guessed , but did not make him confirm my guess . |
| 24 | It did not make him feel any cleaner . |
| 25 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After all , we have no proof against him , and if we can not make him talk , this mystery will never be solved . |
| 30 | Mere negligence on the part of the recipient with respect to the safe custody of the thing will not make him liable . |