Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] them [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
2 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
3 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
4 | Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike . |
5 | Chief Joseph did not reach them soon enough . ’ |
6 | Yet beyond this general expectation he did not pressure them too early , at one point he seriously doubted whether Hideki was fitted to benefit from university study . |
7 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
8 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
9 | But I did not bring them home then ; the school doctor said it was not necessary . |
10 | Other aspects of freedom did not affect them so much . |
11 | The owner of large , complex estates , who did not manage them personally , might never have a clear idea of his full income . |
12 | She knew that the police do not have white cards , but did not press them further on the issue . |
13 | Journalists wore the amused smiles of people enjoying a good argument which did not threaten them personally . |
14 | The Chinese did not like them then and , it seems , entertain no warmer feeling for them now . |
15 | Thérèse did not read them immediately . |
16 | He said there were items which he had wanted to buy but Mrs Knight did not want to sell and he did not take them away . |
17 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
18 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
19 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
20 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
21 | It did not trouble them much . |
22 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
23 | There was a flaw in the intervention For example , the rewards chosen were unsuitable in that the child did not value them enough or there was inconsistency because the PB was defined ambiguously . |
24 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
25 | For example , even those who did live near their kin did not see them especially often . |
26 | ‘ But because they were so busy with their business , he did not see them as much as he wished . |
27 | But the rest either did not find them so , or did not consider it relevant to their teaching of mathematics . |
28 | But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more . |
29 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
30 | They seize the kittens , carry them off , and kill them ; but do not eat them afterwards . |