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 .
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