Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 2 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 3 | I took a picture last night and put a plastic bag on and told the farmer we were n't going to put him in jail here and now . |
| 4 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 5 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
| 6 | I was n't allowed to visit him at Croisset . |
| 7 | She lived in Paris , he at Croisset ; he would n't come to the capital , she was n't allowed to visit him in the country . |
| 8 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 9 | As Wayne returned , she quickly took her hand away ; she was n't going to tell him about this , not if she could help it . |
| 10 | I realized that she was n't going to tell him about events on Vadinamia so that he would n't jump to any conclusions and complicate things . |