Example sentences of "not [verb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 2 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 3 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 5 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 6 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 7 | I have not seen him since this morning . ’ |
| 8 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 9 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 10 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 11 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 12 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 13 | Whereas Charles Dance did not resemble him in any way . |
| 14 | If at the end of the specified period , or such longer period as he may allow , they have not satisfied him in one way or the other , the voluntary process ends and he may apply to the court . |
| 15 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 16 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 17 | His message got through : Laniel approved a proposal to send a Socialist Deputy , Alain Savary , to open up preliminary talks , but Bidault , now Foreign Minister and still a hawk , refused : ‘ Ho Chi Minh is giving in ; do not support him by this contact . ’ |
| 18 | But his wisdom would not help him in this instance . |