Example sentences of "not [v-ing] him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 2 | ‘ The Methodists never made much headway with the Machin family , ’ said Rose , still keeping her distance and not looking him in the eye . |
| 3 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 4 | He blamed the suppliers of the chemicals and British Steel , who contracted him to do the work , for not warning him about the safety procedure . |
| 5 | David was 4½ when he first went to school and not unlike most mothers Mrs Jones was upset at not having him around the house . |
| 6 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |
| 7 | David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time . |