Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] him to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
| 2 | I did not want him to be alone with Otto . |
| 3 | He did not kiss her , she did not want him to . |
| 4 | If you 're fed up with giving him heart-shaped chocolates on St. Valentine 's Day , why not treat him to one of these delicious haircuts ! |
| 5 | She did not expect him to be ‘ faithful ’ , but he was . |
| 6 | Do not expect him to always be amused , though ; he is a very powerful man . |
| 7 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 8 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 9 | It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit . |
| 10 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall not take him to Court . |
| 12 | She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Cheniere , the school 's headmaster , is a practising Catholic of Martinican origin , a freemason whose authoritarian methods do not endear him to his students . |
| 15 | One of the problems perceived in Dr Ting 's autocratic management was that it does not endear him to the more easy-going American physicists ; and there were few large American institutions taking part in L* . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This did not endear him to his colleagues : ‘ At that time , women were automatically shaved , given enemas , had their membranes ruptured and were given foetal monitoring . |
| 20 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 21 | The build-up of frustration he had felt since he lost the part would not allow him to be silent . |
| 22 | A representative of the newly installed Panamanian government said yesterday that if Panamanian forces found General Noriega they would not extradite him to the US to stand trial . |
| 23 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
| 24 | I do n't want him to be unhappy and have a breakdown . |
| 25 | Even by his own account , he had continued to make love to her when he knew she did n't want him to . |
| 26 | I did n't want him to be too uptight or tense , so I kept the jokes coming . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't want him to be compromised . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And I would n't want him to be associated in any way with what happened here last season . ’ |
| 29 | Let him be Gazza — you should n't want him to be anyone else . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm fond of old Jack , I would n't want him to be hurt , ’ she would say with a sigh when we discussed the difficulties of meeting her current lover without Jack finding out . |