Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Connor said later that Cripps pointed out unlawful payments recorded in the books to Bromley but promised not to mention them outside the club . |
2 | During the final edit the TV company 's commissioning editor for arts , Waldemar Januszczak decided not to use them at all . |
3 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
4 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
5 | She knew that her grown-ups were frightened and she did not want them to be frightened , but she also knew that Fenna was a mightier protection than all their loving care could ever be . |
6 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
7 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
8 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
9 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
10 | If Harriet did not carry them to higher ground they would surely drown . |
11 | If mail did not reach them by the time of their discharge from care , it was not intentional . |
12 | This small disturbance did not deflect them for long . |
13 | It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others . |
14 | ‘ She did not leave them to me , so nobody shall have them . ’ |
15 | When they participated in the market economy , they were usually confined to menial positions , many of which did not bring them into much contact with men . |
16 | Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death . |
17 | They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures . |
18 | The Versailles peace conference acceded to Japan 's takeover of the former German concessions , but the Chinese refused to sign any treaty which did not return them to China , and Japan remained in occupation . |
19 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
20 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
21 | Because she had never known her parents well , she did not miss them at all . |
22 | Since then , negatively , he did not number them among the twelve , it may be held to have been his intention not to do so . |
23 | Indeed , she did not accompany them on this stroll along the Western Esplanade to the Dumpton Gap even in their thoughts . |
24 | There was a warm welcome from the people of Barbados , but their sympathy did not prevent them from preparing a pitch to suit the fast bowlers when the Test took place . |
25 | They saw some ‘ family homes ’ which looked like ordinary mental hospital wards and although patients in some wards were referred to as ‘ guests , ’ this did not prevent them from being confined by locked doors . |
26 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
27 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
28 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
29 | In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength . |
30 | As ‘ London Transport ’ fleet name transfers did not become available until May 1934 , it is probable that they did not receive them until their next annual overhaul . |