Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] 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 | He did not stop to warn them of any of the unseen hazards he was first to discover . |
| 4 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 5 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 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 . |