Example sentences of "[vb past] not [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloria pretended not to notice him . |
| 2 | Léonie and Thérèse pretended not to notice him . |
| 3 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 4 | Zoe pretended not to hear him . |
| 5 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 8 | She stared at him and seemed not to see him . |
| 9 | Harry was puzzled that Nicholas seemed not to know him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It makes you look like a sheep , ’ she observed coldly , but even this seemed not to offend him . |
| 12 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because I felt that John would be relying on the people he loved not to forget him , I kept it . |
| 15 | Cooke said : ‘ Ian suffered haematoma and we decided not to risk him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She decided not to offer him a gin and tonic before his performance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His father died on Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |
| 21 | Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday 's race . |
| 22 | Since his wife had been failing and the family was very poor , they decided not to bury him right away . |
| 23 | She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again . |
| 24 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 25 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 26 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 27 | Few people used it during the day and those who were there when Wickham entered appeared not to notice him . |
| 28 | Ballater appeared not to hear him . |
| 29 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 30 | We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’ |