Example sentences of "not [vb infin] his [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then did Anselm not make his support of Henry conditional on concessions for the liberty of the Church comparable to the charter of liberties which the baronage had obtained ? |
| 2 | He added that the sentence would not influence his negotiations with de Klerk on South Africa 's future . |
| 3 | So long as he was solvent in law , he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts . |
| 4 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 5 | He did not confine his activities to Claudine , then ? |
| 6 | Lord did not confine his ventures to cricket . |
| 7 | He did not discuss his ordeal with Ranulf or the Prior , although he told them time and again that all was well and let them order his life , content to drift , think and reflect . |
| 8 | Bourke did not enjoy his time in Russia and on 23 October 1968 returned to his native Ireland . |
| 9 | Although Sharir did not confirm his defection until April 7 , Peres informed President Chaim Herzog on April 4 that he had succeeded in gaining a majority and intended to request that the Knesset be reconvened from its Passover recess for a vote of confidence . |
| 10 | But Lawrence would not confirm his Republic of Ireland international 's returns tonight . |
| 11 | If I will not bring his bride to life , then he will rob my bride of her life . ’ |
| 12 | He would not neglect his wife in favour of his work , nor his work in favour of his wife . |
| 13 | A man who can not base his decisions on precedent and logic has no business being on the bench ( a premise that Justice Brennan never forgot ) . |
| 14 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 15 | There is nothing more certain than that Zacco will not send his friend into danger . |
| 16 | It is therefore extremely significant that we read of Jesus in the New Testament that the Spirit descends and remains on him ( John 1:32 ) and that God did not give his Spirit by measure or sparingly to him ( John 3:34 ) . |
| 17 | No doubt he would have given the world to call her back , but he would not give his chance of heaven . |
| 18 | Although Price did not give his evidence on oath ( because under Swedish law an accomplice can not be required to give evidence on oath ) , he was reminded of his duty to speak the truth when questioned in court , and he declared himself to be aware of his duty of truthfulness . |
| 19 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 20 | ACTOR Woody Allen was heartbroken last night after being told he could not see his children for Christmas . |
| 21 | WOODY ALLEN went shopping yesterday after a judge told him he could not see his children for Christmas but could send them presents . |
| 22 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 23 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 24 | ONE in 20 family doctors does not clean his thermometer between patients , a sure way to spread disease , according to a survey published today . |
| 25 | The court recognised that the police officer 's description of TJ did not fit his appearance at court ; and there was a 17-month delay between the incident and the parade . |
| 26 | Merton ( 1938 ) , for example , does not conclude his exposition of anomie theory by proposing a solution ( though he gives enough away elsewhere for Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , to see him as favouring a ‘ meritocratic ’ solution ) . |
| 27 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 28 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 29 | It was not long , you will recall , since Ian Botham was remarking that he would not take his mother-in-law to Pakistan . |
| 30 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |