Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 32 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 33 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 34 | I can not remember him at all , whether he was young or old or fat or thin or short or tall or anything . |
| 35 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 36 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
| 37 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 38 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 39 | Mr Junejo was a conservative Muslim whose wife , following strict Islamic traditions , did not join him in public appearances . |
| 40 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
| 41 | It did not surprise him at all that the Chairman 's answer should come , hand-delivered , to his villa at four o'clock in the morning , and that the rendezvous would be away from Baghdad . |
| 42 | Whereas Charles Dance did not resemble him in any way . |
| 43 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 44 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 45 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 46 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
| 47 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 48 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
| 49 | If at the end of the specified period , or such longer period as he may allow , they have not satisfied him in one way or the other , the voluntary process ends and he may apply to the court . |
| 50 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 51 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 52 | Last night a nationwide alert was issued for the former foreign embassy bodyguard , who has Merseyside connections , and the public was warned not to approach him under any circumstances . |
| 53 | This man would blow up a city without five seconds ' compunction — and she did not criticise him for that — but he would insist on good whisky , eat in good restaurants , like to travel first-class . |
| 54 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 55 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 56 | His message got through : Laniel approved a proposal to send a Socialist Deputy , Alain Savary , to open up preliminary talks , but Bidault , now Foreign Minister and still a hawk , refused : ‘ Ho Chi Minh is giving in ; do not support him by this contact . ’ |
| 57 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 58 | And , in the end , she might not lose him after all … |
| 59 | The poet was a member of polite society addressing himself to his equals , and though poetry was a special mode of communication it did not exempt him from all the normal usages of polite society . |
| 60 | I mean you 're not locking him in any more are you ? |