Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 2 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 3 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 4 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |
| 5 | But as always I was wary of contradicting him , not wanting to antagonize him by even the slightest show of disagreement in case he left me . |
| 6 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 7 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 8 | If the police were sufficiently confident of their case against Sykes , surely they would not hesitate to take him into custody ? |
| 9 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 10 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 11 | That 's right , he usually sits up there , and I 'm , not going to leave him on his own till I know he 's alright . |
| 12 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 13 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 14 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
| 15 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
| 16 | For example , while the newcomers may fail to understand the skill and local status of the farm worker , they do not wish to treat him as a social outcast — this would run counter to the notion of community with which many newcomers strongly identify . |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 18 | Each replied that he did not wish to see him without consulting his solicitor as the depositions had been taken and it was understood that nothing further was required other than a date to be set for the trial . |
| 19 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 20 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 21 | But the man whose failure to think is morally culpable , is distinguishable from such blameless defendants and it may be that the courts will not wish to exclude him from liability . |
| 22 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 23 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 24 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 25 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 26 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |
| 27 | I hope that the hon. Member for Beaconsfield will serve on the Committee that will examine the Bill , although I am not trying to condemn him to that if he does not wish to be there , because I think that we might be able to find some common ground . |
| 28 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 29 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 30 | You do n't want to put him in a corner and have him as an enemy . |