Example sentences of "not [v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly though she is disappointed at not seeing him — and is concerned for his welfare . |
| 2 | Those weeks , not seeing him , wondering , too proud to make the first move . |
| 3 | ‘ I could n't bear not seeing him again . ’ |
| 4 | the time I 'm not seeing him . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not seeing him again ? ’ |
| 6 | She was looking directly at Coffin now , but was not seeing him . |
| 7 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 8 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 9 | Not encouraging him . |
| 10 | I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been . |
| 11 | She laughed , still not trusting him . |
| 12 | Not trusting him to return it , she would not give it . |
| 13 | By then Richards , his England colleague and the opposition No 8 , had retired , reluctantly conceding that a troublesome right Achilles ' tendon was not helping him or the Tigers . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not helping him by behaviour like this , ’ snapped Drew . |
| 15 | Despite my anger and despair at what had happened to Brian , killing myself now would n't make amends for not helping him . |
| 16 | Pike , aware that the bucket was not helping him , removed it . |
| 17 | I 'm not helping him . |
| 18 | In the Scottish tradition , following upon our Scottish theologian Dun Scottas although not representing him properly , it says that righteousness and moral items are just to do with the will of God . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been drinking too — I 'm not driving him ! ’ |
| 20 | Peking said it would not persecute Mr Yang if he was returned to the mainland , a clear sign it would strongly disapprove of Hong Kong not returning him . |
| 21 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 22 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 23 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 24 | Cheney declared himself " stunned , angry and frustrated " by his involvement in the scandal and , like many other offenders , blamed dubious administrative practices by the bank for not keeping a more accurate record of the state of his account and for not keeping him more closely informed of his financial position . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not exonerating him but a lot of refs would have maybe done it differently . ’ |
| 26 | Yes he 's built a business up and I 'm not denying him that er or anything at all , But somehow now er I do n't know whether the wheel is turning too fast for him to co keep up with it or whether it 's erm oh never mind the erm the industry of the locality , providing the money stakes a I know every business has got to pay for itself and that we we 're not , If this quarry was on the down grade and er er somebody had come to us said , look unless you take a drop in your wages er we ca n't survive that would be a different issue altogether . |
| 27 | Chesarynth hung back , not wanting him behind her , but he ushered her in with little shooing motions of his manicured hands and she had no choice . |
| 28 | ‘ No , ’ she blurted out , not wanting him to move , not wanting him to hurt himself . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ she blurted out , not wanting him to move , not wanting him to hurt himself . |
| 30 | He released her as suddenly as he had come to her support and she grasped quickly and covertly at the back of another chair , not wanting him to know that her numbed leg was tingling painfully now . |