Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 2 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 3 | ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames . |
| 4 | In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try . |
| 5 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 6 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 9 | Er but I said I could n't give him a definite quote for a price , because I would n't have the Committee . |
| 10 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 11 | He still could n't spare him a drop of real hatred , though — Carter was the one . |
| 12 | Offcourse Howard Wilkinson could n't guarantee him a place in the first eleven and Mr Wilkinson told Strandli that if he wants to leave Leeds United that 's fine with him , but he wo n't let him go for ‘ nothing ’ . |
| 13 | The management of Roker FC could n't guarantee him a place in the side . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They could n't deny him a priest and him in a place like that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I could n't see him the room was full with smoke . |
| 16 | Martin Amis in 1980 when his Money could n't buy him a decent shirt |
| 17 | highways and that sort of thing , and he does go to Farnsfield , and he does go to Oxford and back , and really all you need do is just send him , you need n't send him the minutes here , you just send him the notice of the meeting |
| 18 | Although on friendly terms with Matthew Boulton before going to Birmingham , he would not give him the details of a cannon ‘ that the Americans have constructed on a new principle ’ . |
| 19 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 20 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 21 | I would not give him an answer until we were on our own . |
| 22 | On another occasion an out-of-work blacksmith came and said that " if the parish would not find him a shop to work in , he would make his complaint to a justice " . |
| 23 | Earl Ferrers , whose closest friends would not call him an intellectual , was unfamiliar with the arcane procedure of the House . |
| 24 | Michael Holly , now on his knees on a Stolypin carriage floor , and unshaven because they would not permit him a razor , and with the hunger lapping at his belly , had been a model prisoner in the Vladimir gaol 200 kilometres east of the capital . |
| 25 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't give him a ham sandwich , ’ said Robert . |
| 27 | ‘ The PCC would n't give him a bean towards getting it repaired and he said he 'd spike their guns and do it himself . ’ |
| 28 | I would n't give him the time of day if I could help it . |
| 29 | She would n't give him the satisfaction of showing any further anger or distress . |
| 30 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |