Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're fed up with giving him heart-shaped chocolates on St. Valentine 's Day , why not treat him to one of these delicious haircuts ! |
| 2 | He threatened that if the Moldavian authorities did not notify him within 10 days of their implementation of measures to extricate Moldavia from its crisis of " inter-ethnic confrontation " he would take " necessary measures " in accordance with his newly enhanced presidential powers [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 3 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
| 4 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
| 5 | But Kit Everard would not exchange him against either of the women , and indeed , showed little interest in recovering him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She could not provide him with small talk , or prod him to abandon his silences . |
| 8 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
| 9 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After that we did not see him at all . |
| 14 | She does not see him at all . |
| 15 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 16 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 17 | I can not remember him at all , whether he was young or old or fat or thin or short or tall or anything . |
| 18 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 19 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Junejo was a conservative Muslim whose wife , following strict Islamic traditions , did not join him in public appearances . |
| 23 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Whereas Charles Dance did not resemble him in any way . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 30 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |