Example sentences of "not [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 2 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 3 | It was impossible not to compare him with her stepfather , so cold , reserved and cautious , and whose passions seemed solely aroused by his business and moneymaking skill . |
| 4 | Shultz , for all his opposition to the Iran operation , merely told Poindexter not to inform him of details he did not need to know ; and the admiral , needing no encouragement to hold things close , took that line with other members of the cabinet . |
| 5 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 6 | We could meet up with them in public and I could n't guarantee not to strangle him on sight . |
| 7 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 8 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 9 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 10 | YOUNG Darren Ferguson 's ability persuaded his dad Alex not to sell him to Forest — and now he 's the bright spot in United 's poor start to the season |
| 11 | Jazzbeaux tried not to look him in the eye . |
| 12 | So it 's common sense not to let him into every area of your life . |
| 13 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 14 | She had decided , quietly confident that it was safe to do so , not to accompany him on a tour of some Greek islands , and he had taken instead her of the cross-eyes etc . |
| 15 | She was always careful while here to cast her inquiries in the form of statements and she said , choosing her words meticulously , ‘ I expect Jasper was a bit off-colour this morning so you felt it wiser not to send him to school . |
| 16 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 17 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 18 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 19 | Where there is possibly a meeting of minds between him and the government is in the desire not to release him into a political vacuum . |
| 20 | It is essential not to confound him with the greater Frederick II ( Hohenstaufen ) , holy Roman emperor from 1215 to 1250 , and before that ( 1198–1212 ) king of Sicily as Frederick I. For this great figure , author of The Book of the Falcon and a hero for Dante as well as Pound , is to figure portentously in the Thrones cantos to come as we shall see . |
| 21 | Last night a nationwide alert was issued for the former foreign embassy bodyguard , who has Merseyside connections , and the public was warned not to approach him under any circumstances . |
| 22 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 23 | Mark Hazell has been granted a judicial review of Avon County Council 's decision not to place him in the residential home of his own choosing , Milton Heights in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | She was very careful after that not to take him for granted , even occasionally making excuses to refuse his sporadic invitations , although it tore her to shreds not to be with him at every opportunity . |
| 25 | In one of his letters , he told Margaret and her mother not to follow him to London . |
| 26 | Yet it had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori . |
| 27 | ‘ If I ever have a man , remind me not to introduce him to you . ’ |