Example sentences of "not [vb pp] him [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 2 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 3 | She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour . |
| 4 | She had not wanted him to behave like ‘ darling Alexander ’ ! |
| 5 | Peter knew that Julian gambled , but he had n't expected him to gamble to that level , and certainly not to use the shop as security . |
| 6 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |