Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so glad that Len was back by her side , and yet she dared not tell him why , because he would only be angry and perhaps start a fight and worry afterwards anyway . |
| 2 | He 's mad , he 's mad , Ruth thought ; but she dared not leave him . |
| 3 | Artemis did n't understand what he meant , but dared not ask him . |
| 4 | The malais dared not harm him . |
| 5 | I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains . |
| 6 | The fact that nobody noticed him , let alone the flowers , did not give him ease of conscience , but that was what he sought . |
| 7 | And being organized did not give him pleasure . |
| 8 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 9 | She did not give him time to finish . |
| 10 | But his mother did not give him permission to work . |
| 11 | And she did not want him to go . |
| 12 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 13 | ‘ But the rest of our family insisted because we did not want him to be endangered . |
| 14 | She said she did not want him staring at her , she wanted a bit of her life to herself ; without having to share it with Randolph Ash . |
| 15 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 16 | I did not want him to be alone with Otto . |
| 17 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 18 | as if she too did not want him there , not then , not at that moment |
| 19 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 20 | His wife did not want him , and was happy to divorce him . |
| 21 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 22 | There could never be any resolution of her love for David , but she did not want him to think that his feelings were unwanted or unreciprocated . |
| 23 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 24 | She did not want him now . |
| 25 | She hoped she did not sound too sarcastic , she did not want him to ring off . |
| 26 | The factory did not want him . |
| 27 | The shops did not want him . |
| 28 | She did not want him to exercise his leg until the infected burn had healed completely . |
| 29 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 30 | She would accept no other visitors and yet , he sensed , she did not want him near . |