Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 2 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 3 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 4 | Naturally I would n't want to get him in any trouble . ’ |
| 5 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 6 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 7 | Or , like he , if the little girl 's riding him , he always goes with her then as well , but even if the girl 's not on him , he takes him for a walk like a big dog so I mean , they 're lovely people , you could n't wish to have him with nicer people , erm , you know they are , they really are nice |
| 8 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |