Example sentences of "not [verb] him for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 2 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 3 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 4 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 6 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 7 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 8 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 9 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 10 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
| 11 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 12 | This man would blow up a city without five seconds ' compunction — and she did not criticise him for that — but he would insist on good whisky , eat in good restaurants , like to travel first-class . |