Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If because risk had not passed to the buyer , the seller has to bear the loss , this does not necessarily excuse him from performing the contract . |
| 2 | The fact that the subject believes himself to be been falsely suspected will not necessarily protect him from criminal liability if he should over-react . |
| 3 | She did not merely like him , did not merely hold him in high regard ; she was in love with him ! |
| 4 | In the event , inhabitants of Štanjel , although they were certainly not unkind to him , did not exactly welcome him with open arms . |
| 5 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 7 | These influences will not always incline him to the view that revelation of particular legal or political material is necessarily in the public interest . |
| 8 | Floy was suspicious and Caspar did not really blame him for that . |
| 9 | He is put down by Gloucester for being illegitimate and ignored so one can not really blame him for seeking revenge against the wrong done to him and for his bitter character . |
| 10 | It seems that it might take a great deal of commitment and determination to drag yourself out in the pouring rain or snow , until you think about how much you miss your husband when you can not even touch him for nearly two weeks . |
| 11 | For you can not even get him on the telephone . |
| 12 | Do not immediately put him on the lead , for this will reinforce the idea that when he comes back to you , he is immediately going to be taken home and , in future , will associate coming to you with the end of the walk or game . |
| 13 | Housman might not readily recognise him as a Shropshire Lad . |
| 14 | He had played a conciliatory role in ending the players ' strike during the last labour-contract negotiations in 1990 and some owners felt they could not fully trust him to be their man this time round . |
| 15 | Uxbridge had eloped with the wife of the Duke 's younger brother , which did not precisely endear him to the Duke . |
| 16 | It is a long established rule of law that where a contracting party refuses to perform his contractual obligations by giving a wrong reason , this does not subsequently deprive him of a justification which in fact existed at the time of refusal ( see Taylor v Oakes ( 1922 ) 27 Com Cas 261 ; Braithwaite v Foreign Hardwood Co Ltd [ 1905 ] 2 KB 543 ; and Fercometal SARL v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA [ 1989 ] AC 788 discussed in Chapter 15 ) . |
| 17 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 18 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 19 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |
| 20 | He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’ |
| 21 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |
| 22 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 23 | For both of them , their work was to be a spokesman for God , taking His message to people who did n't really acknowledge Him in their lives . |
| 24 | No I do n't really know him outside of work to be honest |
| 25 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |
| 26 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 27 | She did n't often see him like that . |
| 28 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 29 | We could n't even bury him from our own home . |
| 30 | The port they did n't supply you with anything , my father was captain of the dredger Dredging Plant and they did n't even supply him with a hat . |