Example sentences of "not [vb infin] his [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as he was solvent in law , he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts . |
| 2 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 3 | Mr Mortimer does not confine his message to high politics . |
| 4 | Prince Florestan had a serious purpose however , and did not confine his activities to mixing with London society , even though he enjoyed a guaranteed entrée . |
| 5 | He did not confine his activities to Claudine , then ? |
| 6 | Lord did not confine his ventures to cricket . |
| 7 | The spectator has come for blood , but did not buy his ticket to be reminded of his own mortality . |
| 8 | Councillor David Warner , while commenting that he could not bring his find to the council meeting , reported that he had spied a full sized bath with one tap which had been thrown in the hedge in Tunbridge Lane . |
| 9 | If I will not bring his bride to life , then he will rob my bride of her life . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 11 | He classified his poems on Hartleian principles , e.g. Imagination , Affection , Sentiment and Reflection , and in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads he explained that one of the functions of poetry is to show how ‘ we associate ideas in a state of excitement ’ ; Wordsworth did not expect his poems to ‘ gratify certain known habits of association ’ — he will provide new associations and ‘ create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed ’ . |
| 12 | Now Hyde could not show his face to the world again . |
| 13 | ‘ In Norman Lamont we have a quiet man , but do not underestimate his contribution to getting the country out of slump . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I will allow you to take his soul , ’ said Fael-Inis again , ‘ but I must have your promise that you will not give his body to the Conablaiche . |
| 15 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 16 | Sammy was a competent skipper , but he could not keep his hands to himself when Ellen was close . |
| 17 | They did not like his approach to it . |
| 18 | The marriage of James 's son James IV to Margaret Tudor , from which the Stewart claim to the English throne derived , came about more because of pressure from Henry VII than from any Scottish enthusiasm ; and the Treaty of Perpetual Peace which accompanied it would last for no more than eleven years , collapsing because James could not sustain his obligations to both France and England when Henry VIII joined the pope 's grotesquely named Holy League against France . |
| 19 | But Julian Green does not limit his universe to inner emotional states , nor does he write in an ivory tower . |
| 20 | Also , I have to report the receipt of another letter of objection which I think the county surveyor is wa aware about but does not alter his recommendation to the report . |
| 21 | ‘ … the purchaser can not avoid his liability to the auctioneer by paying the vendor direct without telling the auctioneer . |
| 22 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 23 | Karl turned and walked back along the other side of the garden , although this time Erika did not draw his attention to the words of Josef Stalin paying tribute to glorious workers , doctors , nurses , and so on . |
| 24 | What this argument suggests in Gandhi 's case is that he does not abandon his commitment to the principle of non-violence or qualify it in any way when he approves the destruction of life . |
| 25 | So when Tommaso showed interest in her during those Easter holidays , she noticed him ; while Caterina remained unaware , for she had always the effect of spreading pleasure , and did not remark his response to her , his alert shoulders , his greedy pale eyes tensing for a moment , then flicking guiltily away to contemplate her sister . |
| 26 | The draftsman of a clause linking the subrent to the headrent must make it clear what is to happen if the head landlord does not exercise his right to a rent under the headlease , or if the headlease is surrendered . |
| 27 | It was not long , you will recall , since Ian Botham was remarking that he would not take his mother-in-law to Pakistan . |
| 28 | I therefore can not submit his application to the House today . |
| 29 | The reason Bohm could get away with it was that he did not submit his theory to this superfluous requirement . |
| 30 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |