Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Despite the contempt with which Bogdanovic views Milosevic , he does not consider him as most responsible for the situation in which Serbia finds itself . |
2 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
3 | But Kit Everard would not exchange him against either of the women , and indeed , showed little interest in recovering him . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Political theories could not provide him with any answers . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | After that we did not see him at all . |
10 | She does not see him at all . |
11 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
12 | I can not remember him at all , whether he was young or old or fat or thin or short or tall or anything . |
13 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Whereas Charles Dance did not resemble him in any way . |
19 | 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 ’ . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
23 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . ’ |
26 | And , in the end , she might not lose him after all … |
27 | 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 . |
28 | But his wisdom would not help him in this instance . |
29 | Suddenly , a fact struck Ken that did not please him at all . |
30 | He could not believe what he was hearing , but he knew that the General would not deceive him in these , or any other , circumstances . |