Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly . |
| 2 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 3 | She raged to Ferdinando about this Dr Grisanowsky , and even the assurance that he was a friend of Miss Blagden 's did not make him more acceptable in her eyes . |
| 4 | She would accept no other visitors and yet , he sensed , she did not want him near . |
| 5 | She did not want him anywhere near it . |
| 6 | She did not want him now . |
| 7 | But Fergie will not want him there too much . |
| 8 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 9 | as if she too did not want him there , not then , not at that moment |
| 10 | Rose did not answer him directly . |
| 11 | Although only sixteen , she was not much shocked by his attempts , but she was alarmed by her own lack of response , for she did not fancy him nearly as much as she had fancied the infinitely tedious Higginbotham . |
| 12 | Various offers of other employment did not tempt him away , even a job at £1000 per year . |
| 13 | She did not trust him either , considering him to be little more than a teller of comforting lies , her mother 's doctor oozing reassurance from every pore . |
| 14 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 15 | They would not trouble him again . |
| 16 | Alexia did not know him well , he realised . |
| 17 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 18 | It might have been anybody , kissing her , and , besides , she did not know him well , if at all . |
| 19 | So I do not know him well . |
| 20 | She did not know him now , did not recognise that steel thread of arrogant command . |
| 21 | Mr Gummer argued that he was justified in not registering the work as the show did not benefit him financially . |
| 22 | But his small rebellion did not bring him even a modest reward . |
| 23 | Tears would not bring him back , but somehow her mind could not register that , and she could not stop the slow salt trickle from creeping down her cheeks . |
| 24 | I could not bring him down . ’ |
| 25 | It was not Gandhi 's intention when he originally decided to fast to exert moral coercion on the mill-owners , since coercion in any form was contrary to the aims of satyāgraha , yet despite the unexpected result of his fast Gandhi still felt that he had acted correctly in the circumstances.m The experience did not prevent him either from using fasts as a form of satyāgraha on other occasions with similar results . |
| 26 | Just be sure that your opponent does not trap him there with the Orb of Thunder , so keep that Dispel scroll handy . |
| 27 | And anyway , perhaps she would not welcome him back . |
| 28 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 29 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 30 | Nield , J , searched the authorities on this point and we in Scotland need not follow him too closely through his careful examination of decisions which themselves turn upon the construction of terms unfamiliar in Scottish conveyancing . |