Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
2 | We should not advise him in what circumstances the claim would be covered under the policy . |
3 | We should not blame him for being a man of his time but commend him for his remarkable vision and altruism . |
4 | But some fans might not forgive him for leaving . |
5 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
6 | And , in the end , she might not lose him after all … |
7 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
8 | On 5 September last year his girlfriend , Ann Tierney , could not wake him after staying the night with him and he was dead on arrival at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . |
9 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
10 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
11 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
12 | It could not prevent him from having doubts . |
13 | I duly notified ‘ the appropriate authorities ’ , and they replied that they could not prevent him from going because he was an English subject . |
14 | She could not link him in her mind with her mother at all , though the two of them had once shared a mother themselves . |
15 | His hatred since was channelled towards Beth , and , in all truth , she could not blame him for it . |
16 | Christ could not blame him for drinking . |
17 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
18 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
19 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
20 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
21 | She could not face him before then ; nor would society approve of a private evening visit . |
22 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
23 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
24 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
25 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
26 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
27 | Even the after effects could not keep him from the final . |
28 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
29 | 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 … . |
30 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |