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Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction .
2	Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself .
3	Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years .
4	I decided not to inform him of this .
5	His education had not prepared him for this in any way .
6	Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control .
7	But Kit Everard would not exchange him against either of the women , and indeed , showed little interest in recovering him .
8	She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her .
9	‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’
10	Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days .
11	Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all .
12	Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’
13	Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded .
14	I have not seen him since this morning . ’
15	I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time .
16	She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead .
17	Political theories could not provide him with any answers .
18	Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients .
19	They turned him down on ‘ security grounds ’ ; a lot of the Surinamese living in Holland make it plain that they do not like him at all .
20	They were quite convinced that if Jeopardy had not been quite so stunning to look at , most people would not like him at all because he was arrogant and cold .
21	Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem .
22	After that we did not see him at all .
23	She does not see him at all .
24	She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light .
25	I can not remember him at all , whether he was young or old or fat or thin or short or tall or anything .
26	He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all .
27	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 .
28	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 .
29	For some reason this did not surprise him at all .
30	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 .