Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I ought not to talk about him to you .
2 Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say
3 She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him .
4 Mansell 's Williams team-mate , Riccardo Patrese , in the other FW14B , could not compete with him on this form and , struggling with oversteer , recorded a quickest lap of 1–17.591 , 1.8sec slower .
5 She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker .
6 She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him .
7 To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church .
8 Others could not get to him for half an hour .
9 But she could not believe in him as that kind of reverent fan , whatever his enthusiasm for his subject .
10 She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving .
11 The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome .
12 Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar .
13 Those who would not bow to him in life , it says , now go down on their knees to his bones .
14 In looking back to his playing days , you can not think of him without Jim Shackleton .
15 Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool .
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