Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're also on sale at the chemist 's with other formula milks , but you should not give them to your child without talking to your doctor or health visitor first to see if they 're suitable . |
| 2 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 3 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 4 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 5 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 6 | He need not return them to the seller , who if he wants them must come and collect them , section 36 . |
| 7 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 8 | Thinking they frequented the Creek I would not allow them to be shot but they bent down my grain and destroyed acres of it , and simultaneously disappeared some months after harvest — Where did they come from where do they go ? pray let me hear from you and believe me |
| 9 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 10 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 11 | That the nomination of Boys to the School shall be made fairly and without favouritism and that the Corporation shall not permit them to be influenced by political considerations , whether arising out of local or general politics . |
| 12 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 13 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 14 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 15 | The judge can not say them to a member of the family over breakfast , or in a country where the death penalty has been abolished . |