Example sentences of "not [verb] him [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want him in her life . |
| 2 | It was impossible not to compare him with her stepfather , so cold , reserved and cautious , and whose passions seemed solely aroused by his business and moneymaking skill . |
| 3 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 4 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 5 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 6 | Mr H says the doctor did not speak to him and did not see him without his mother . |
| 7 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 8 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 9 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 10 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 11 | If a guy owes you that sort of money , you do not squash him with your car . |
| 12 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 13 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 14 | She could not link him in her mind with her mother at all , though the two of them had once shared a mother themselves . |
| 15 | In reading this last poem we may glimpse a solution to the problem of Wordsworth 's decline — the Imagination had become a power so terrible that he could not risk indulging it , and yet it would not release him from its grip . |
| 16 | They had not warned him about its appearance ; the head was nearly severed , and the face slashed to pieces by a whip . |
| 17 | If his tutor and his mother had not restrained him despite his desire , The boy , as boys will , would have rushed off on foot . |