Example sentences of "[noun] not [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action .
2 Both goals were examples of calm finishing by the winger who is pleading with White Hart Lane fans not to label him ‘ Dazza ’ .
3 And that officer , luv , I said he was a legate from the Balearics not leg him one in the bollocks but it 's a mistake anybody could have made .
4 To further pleas from Toby not to touch him I raced upstairs , grabbed a duvet and put it round him .
5 ‘ All the better not to know him then , ’ said Lili .
6 If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children .
7 Did John Stewart not name him ? ’
8 In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain .
9 Mark Hazell has been granted a judicial review of Avon County Council 's decision not to place him in the residential home of his own choosing , Milton Heights in Oxfordshire .
10 She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife .
11 Yet it had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori .
12 The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him .
13 Where there is possibly a meeting of minds between him and the government is in the desire not to release him into a political vacuum .
14 When the Bulgarians chose the Coburg Prince Ferdinand as their ruler ( 7 July 1887 ) , it was Salisbury who warned the powers not to eject him unless they had an agreed successor ready .
15 He 's go no hole to get into and pr looks there the person not letting him in .
16 Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips .
17 Shultz , for all his opposition to the Iran operation , merely told Poindexter not to inform him of details he did not need to know ; and the admiral , needing no encouragement to hold things close , took that line with other members of the cabinet .
18 Peking said it would not persecute Mr Yang if he was returned to the mainland , a clear sign it would strongly disapprove of Hong Kong not returning him .
19 Despite his one-year suspended prison sentence , the General Medical Council decided last month not to strike him off .
20 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 .
21 ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’
22 He ca n't complain about people not liking him when he 's so horrible to them .
23 But he was used to people not liking him or his company and so took their attitude as expected .
24 So it 's common sense not to let him into every area of your life .
25 Mary of Guise had the sense not to make him a cause célèbre .
26 In the eyes of both , it would make sense not to have him roaming the country generating huge gatherings with a politically futile , and possibly violently anarchic , outcome .
27 ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’
28 But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block .
29 Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered .
30 Plus a warning not to let him start doing anything of his own .
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