Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 2 | This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease . |
| 3 | ‘ It makes you look like a sheep , ’ she observed coldly , but even this seemed not to offend him . |
| 4 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 5 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 6 | But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal . |
| 7 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |
| 8 | He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world . |
| 9 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 10 | This did not prevent him falling off his chair and being sick on the Japanese premier at a state dinner in Japan earlier this year , an embarrassing incident captured by the TV cameras . |
| 11 | Although in no sense ‘ a povre Persoun of a Toun ’ this did not prevent him being ‘ also a lerned man , a clerk ’ . |
| 12 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 13 | Although Colonel Newnham-Davis consistently pleaded for more varied menus and shorter meals , this did not prevent him from ordering and eating , with evident enjoyment and approval , what seems to-day a perfectly astounding meal . |
| 14 | This did not prevent him joining the revolt of Henry , third Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , against the corrupt government of Queen Isabella [ q.v. ] and Roger Mortimer , first Earl of March [ q.v. ] , in 1328 . |
| 15 | His inability to grasp the intricacies of modern economics was due in large measure to limits of intellect and lack of appropriate training ( although , as we have noted in Chapter 5 , this did not prevent him from drafting , in 1939 , his " National Programme for Resurgence " ) . |
| 16 | Innocent III spent some months outside Rome , but this did not stop him doing justice . |
| 17 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 18 | This did not deter him , as , between 1980 and 1984 , he completed over 400 pages of manuscript . |
| 19 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 20 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 21 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
| 22 | On arriving on platform 3 somewhat early for his train , he found himself completely alone ; this did not disturb him . |
| 23 | Maurice had never learned to swim , but this did not disturb him . |
| 24 | This did not endear him to his colleagues : ‘ At that time , women were automatically shaved , given enemas , had their membranes ruptured and were given foetal monitoring . |
| 25 | This did not worry him . |
| 26 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
| 27 | This did not save him from being imprisoned from 1661 to 1667 on suspicion of plotting against Charles II . |
| 28 | part some did n't trust him did they ? |
| 29 | This had n't stopped him following the actual strategy , but Richmann was n't about to let anyone tell him how to do his job that was a matter of principle . |
| 30 | It was surprising , now he came to think of it , that this had n't scared him off , but he 'd been lulled by her flippancy . |