Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
3 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
4 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
5 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
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 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
8 | Each replied that he did not wish to see him without consulting his solicitor as the depositions had been taken and it was understood that nothing further was required other than a date to be set for the trial . |
9 | He knew she did n't want to take him with her . |
10 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
11 | As the weather became colder , I did n't want to leave him in the pond . |
12 | She tried to ignore the feeling that she did n't want to leave him by telling herself that she must be there if Dana needed her . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Of course I wanted to help but did n't want to startle him by suddenly appearing . |
15 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She did n't want to tie him to her with obligations . |
18 | We did n't attempt to touch him for a lizard can easily lose its tail at the defensive snapping point . |
19 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
20 | It was better not to know , then she did n't have to picture him with his wife and child in their London house , or at High Brook . |
21 | I think the Danuese battalions were the idea of someone high up at home and they did n't wish to offend him by indicating that his brainchild was , as Mr Burnett would have said , a white elephant . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
24 | She had n't planned to approach him like this . |
25 | ‘ Two bullets from a gun fired in Amsterdam ; Ray Doyle dying ; and we would have had Menni Latowa , which would have stopped all this , if we had n't decided to bring him in too late . ’ |