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

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1 I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been .
2 Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client .
3 I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’
4 I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’
5 Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant .
6 She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds .
7 The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time .
8 ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’
9 His handful of Masses , three of them ‘ parodies ’ of motets by his teacher Mouton , do not show him as an innovator .
10 She had not seen him for a month .
11 She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in
12 He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake .
13 The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies .
14 ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’
15 She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done .
16 ‘ I do not see him as a killer .
17 They did not discover him till a fortnight later .
18 It has already been seen that , if the defendant knows that his assailant was a policeman , it will not avail him as a defence if he mistakenly thinks that the policeman was exceeding his powers .
19 She had decided , quietly confident that it was safe to do so , not to accompany him on a tour of some Greek islands , and he had taken instead her of the cross-eyes etc .
20 Good god lad , so erm , she said oh I know I 've been naughty and I have , not neglecting him in a naut , you know , they 've been making sure he 's been alright
21 Where there is possibly a meeting of minds between him and the government is in the desire not to release him into a political vacuum .
22 ‘ If someone has done you wrong , do not repay him with a wrong .
23 His computer ranking would not get him into a 42-man field .
24 If there 's no room on your mantelpiece , could you not put him on a stick for a scarecrow ?
25 But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy .
26 Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’
27 They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post .
28 She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma …
29 I would n't trust him with a play like Amadeus , playing a part like Salieri , if I did n't have belief in his talent .
30 And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't .
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