Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 2 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 3 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 4 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 5 | She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds . |
| 6 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 7 | As the living room of his end-terraced council house in Cherrywood Drive , Beith , Ayrshire , became a court , Mr McTear admitted that even the awful price of his former 60-a-day habit could not rid him of the temptation . |
| 8 | I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! " |
| 9 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 10 | His handful of Masses , three of them ‘ parodies ’ of motets by his teacher Mouton , do not show him as an innovator . |
| 11 | Even the after effects could not keep him from the final . |
| 12 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 13 | She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done . |
| 14 | ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’ |
| 15 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do not see him as a killer . |
| 17 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 18 | They did not discover him till a fortnight later . |
| 19 | It has already been seen that , if the defendant knows that his assailant was a policeman , it will not avail him as a defence if he mistakenly thinks that the policeman was exceeding his powers . |
| 20 | Norwich manager Mike Walker insisted that Newman 's enforced lay-off would not force him into the transfer market . |
| 21 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 22 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 23 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
| 25 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point . |
| 27 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 28 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 29 | She would not let him off the hook . |
| 30 | But they will not save him from the charge of indifference to ecclesiastical politics . |