Example sentences of "not [verb] [to-vb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steadfastly , she avoided his gaze , not wanting to give him an opportunity for some deflating remark . |
| 2 | She did not like to ask him the nature of his work , thinking that if he were something incommunicable , the effort of inventing a lie might crack him up completely . |
| 3 | But Corden , mindful that in football a firm show of boardroom backing so often heralds managerial upheaval , said : ‘ I 'm not going to give him a vote of confidence ! ’ |
| 4 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 5 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 6 | Democrats are hence navigating , as one of them put it , between the Scylla of not wishing to undercut Mr Bush 's diplomacy and the Charybdis of not wishing to give him a blank cheque . |