Example sentences of "not [vb infin] he the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames . |
| 2 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 3 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 4 | Although on friendly terms with Matthew Boulton before going to Birmingham , he would not give him the details of a cannon ‘ that the Americans have constructed on a new principle ’ . |
| 5 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 6 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 7 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 8 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |
| 9 | Perry offers to buy me a drink , but I will not give him the satisfaction . |
| 10 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 11 | In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try . |
| 12 | If he can do what he 's done with Everton 's rejects , why not give him the whole lot ? |
| 13 | She did not tell him the price or the amount of shares involved , but did say that an announcement would soon be made . |
| 14 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 15 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 16 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 17 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 18 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 19 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |