Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
| 2 | THE SUCCESSFUL UUUC MPS HAD THE NUMBERS TO HAVE ENABLED HIM TO REMAIN IN OFFICE , BUT WERE BOUND BY AN ELECTION PLEDGE NOT TO SUPPORT HIM . |
| 3 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 4 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 5 | I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’ |
| 6 | Neil Fairbrother missed practice yesterday because of a virus , but , at the moment , England 's management do not regard him as being doubtful . |
| 7 | His handful of Masses , three of them ‘ parodies ’ of motets by his teacher Mouton , do not show him as an innovator . |
| 8 | If you do not flip him off balance he can quite easily crash right into the marginal weed some distance along your own bank . |
| 9 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 10 | The colour photos I have seen of this fish just do not do him justice . |
| 11 | Faced with growing hostility or boredom over Europe , M Mitterrand threatened at the weekend to hold a referendum if the two parliamentary chambers do not give him a two-thirds majority for constitutional changes . |
| 12 | Do not give him a pretext to strike you down . ’ |
| 13 | Osbern has his father killed by a lowly mob and thrown to birds and wild animals ; more reliable sources do not mention him again . |
| 14 | It helps the sufferer to know that while you hold him or her responsible for all actions , you do not hold him or her accountable for having addictive disease in the first place . |
| 15 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 16 | Do not expect him to always be amused , though ; he is a very powerful man . |
| 17 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 18 | Further on in that same book in chapter twelve and verse twenty five See to it that you do not refuse him , that is , the Lord Jesus who is speaking , for if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth , how much less shall we escape who turn away from him , who warns from heaven ? |
| 19 | I do NOT want him going to some — |
| 20 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 21 | I do not want him to return now . |
| 22 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 23 | For instance , if the parties do not want the expert to consider any evidence other than that contained in their submissions , and do not want him to make his own independent investigations , they could stipulate to that effect in the expert clause . |
| 24 | • Many poisons cause as much damage coming back up as they do going down , so do not make him vomit unless you are sure it is safe to do so . |
| 25 | His methods of computation may be ridiculous , but he is right to think that they do not love him , and his sense of bitter ingratitude causes his madness . |
| 26 | It is because , if mania represents an overcoming of the lost primal mother by means of triumphant substitution of the son for the mother , then megalomania represents , not only a denial of the passive love of the father ( I do not love him , I love myself ) , but also an unconscious identification and fusion with him ( it is in this sense that our manic autobiography above can claim that ‘ in a sense I am God ’ , etc . ) . |
| 27 | But the psychoanalytic theory of paranoia enables us to see that these two equally-well-attested interpretations are not in any way in conflict with one another because in the latent content of paranoia we find both a tendency to symbolize the father as the sun and a delusion of persecution concerning him which in a typically paranoid way denies the homosexual factor by saying I do not love him , he hates me . |
| 28 | She said to me , ‘ Do not forget him . |
| 29 | I can imagine him so very clearly , from his photographs , his words , but I do not remember him myself — I should have , I was two years old — it 's strange that I can not remember seeing him bending over my cot , as they say he did , glass of brandy-and-soda in hand . |
| 30 | If we do not oppose him by force then we must be willing to see all that we love and value go under for at least a generation . |