Example sentences of "could not [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
2 | She could not let him throw last night in her face . |
3 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
4 | No matter what it cost her , she could not let him leave without trying to speak to him . |
5 | Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again . |
6 | Now they could not let him slip away . |
7 | She could not let him get close to her . |