Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party .
2 The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband .
3 It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room .
4 To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation .
5 The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’
6 John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same .
7 John McVurich , alledged diviner , being summond and not compared recommended him to the session of Kilarrow to processe him for the same .
8 The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ?
9 ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’
10 ‘ Two bullets from a gun fired in Amsterdam ; Ray Doyle dying ; and we would have had Menni Latowa , which would have stopped all this , if we had n't decided to bring him in too late . ’
11 I was n't allowed to visit him at Croisset .
12 She lived in Paris , he at Croisset ; he would n't come to the capital , she was n't allowed to visit him in the country .
13 She had n't planned to approach him like this .
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