Example sentences of "did [adv] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 That this tolerant attitude should have resulted in his being called an Anekāntavādin , or a believer in many doctrines , is not surprising , but it did not disturb him in the least .
2 It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place .
3 However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’
4 Despite a diary mix-up , my unexpected arrival on a Saturday did not perturb him in the slightest .
5 He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing .
6 But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment .
7 Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution .
8 that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl .
9 She did not share Baldwin 's intellectual or aesthetic tastes , and she did not accompany him on the long walks which were a staple part of his recreation in Worcestershire or at Aix .
10 Unfortunately , the newspaper reporter did not press him on the point .
11 An awareness of God 's contrivance in the intricate designs of nature might confound the atheist , but it did not point him toward the God who had entered into covenant with sinful humanity .
12 Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public .
13 This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed .
14 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
15 We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela .
16 I want to tell the world tonight that they did not kill him in the name of Ireland .
17 And I did n't think him in the least like the Beast in the fairy tale although his hair and beard need a little trimming perhaps .
18 It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie .
19 I did n't press him on the question of where the design had originated from , for his ready answer was ‘ off the top of my uncle 's head ’ .
20 The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie .
21 He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least .
22 With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers .
23 She did n't tell him about the snake .
24 I did n't tell him about the handbill I had found ; indeed , I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence .
25 Did n't tell him about the er row of eights on there .
26 ‘ He 's lucky we did n't leave him in the car . ’
27 One said he did n't want him on the books , he just did n't want to know .
28 With his guilt over Anthony , he felt that at least she loved him and did n't blame him for the death .
29 ‘ I did n't meet him on the lane . ’
30 It 's surprising thumping him in the back did n't kill him with the kidney failure in n it ?
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