Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 2 | Surely she does not want to deprive them of these amenities ? |
| 3 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 4 | Were they not going to destroy them after all ? |
| 5 | He did not stop to warn them of any of the unseen hazards he was first to discover . |
| 6 | We do not have to follow them along that particular path to see that the question of definition is also raised by the examples I have briefly cited . |
| 7 | Do not attempt to organise them in any type of pattern other than under the major heading of asset or liability . |
| 8 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 9 | Six of 116 general practitioners in Surrey admitted not cleaning their thermometers while others did not bother to use them at all . |
| 10 | Yet if we are not allowed to use them in contextual cross-references , how can we succeed in saying what we wish to say , namely that they do not designate any existent ? |
| 11 | I do n't yet know what their comments will be and I ‘ m not trying to influence them in one direction or another . |
| 12 | All car controls are in place but subjects were not required to use them in this experiment . |