Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] he [prep] the " 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 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 3 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 4 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 5 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 6 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 9 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 10 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 11 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 12 | As the weather became colder , I did n't want to leave him in the pond . |
| 13 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 14 | I do n't want to tell him over the phone , but at the same time I ca n't pretend everything 's all right . ’ |
| 15 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 16 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 17 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 18 | But if you do n't have to contact the inland revenue , because you do n't need to prove the will because the estate is too small then you do n't have to tell him about the jointly owned property . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |