Example sentences of "[verb] not [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kopyion , appearing not to notice him , continued collecting messages , reading through them quickly and then shredding them . |
| 2 | Gloria pretended not to notice him . |
| 3 | Léonie and Thérèse pretended not to notice him . |
| 4 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 5 | Zoe pretended not to hear him . |
| 6 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 7 | He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking . |
| 8 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 9 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 10 | We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight . |
| 11 | We walked straight past , pretending not to notice him , but he got hold of Malcolm and said , where 's the audition ? |
| 12 | No he did n't know cos Sarah says not to tell him till we 've done it . |
| 13 | Even then she might have decided not to answer him , or she could have let it be seen by accident before knowing what it was . |
| 14 | Having decided not to marry him , Clare directed her rescuer , David Arrowsmith , to Applebank Cottage . |
| 15 | She stared at him and seemed not to see him . |
| 16 | Harry was puzzled that Nicholas seemed not to know him . |
| 17 | The fact we were chatting about a programme on Radio 4 while standing on a dainty platform hundreds of feet tall seemed not to bother him . |
| 18 | ‘ It makes you look like a sheep , ’ she observed coldly , but even this seemed not to offend him . |
| 19 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 20 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 21 | Suddenly she wanted him gone so urgently that it was all she could do not to order him to get out . |
| 22 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 23 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 24 | Because I felt that John would be relying on the people he loved not to forget him , I kept it . |
| 25 | Cooke said : ‘ Ian suffered haematoma and we decided not to risk him . |
| 26 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 27 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 28 | She decided not to offer him a gin and tonic before his performance . |
| 29 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 30 | His father died on Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |