Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I leave , my client begs me not to go . |
| 2 | And her soulful eyes and wobbling chin would be challenging the others , daring them not to join in ! |
| 3 | The personal qualities of the Masai made them not only attractive to the British but ‘ attractive … to administer ’ . |
| 4 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
| 5 | I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back . |
| 6 | ‘ You trust me not to hurt you in any way ? ’ |
| 7 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 8 | In the evening when the booking and despatch department would start packing up to go , so would I and no one asked me not to . |
| 9 | He asked me not to misquote him . |
| 10 | The thing that 's teasing my mind is that I 'm fairly sure he asked me not to tell anyone he 'd been there . ’ |
| 11 | It was on one of these occasions that Guy Gibson was ushered into " Cocky's ' presence and , just prior to his appearance , the AOC had given me a slip of paper with the names of about 20 pilots whom he asked me not to recruit — as a favour to him — which was his style . |
| 12 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 13 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 14 | Suffer me not to be separated . |
| 15 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 16 | Dorigo and Kelly got caught out many times on Saturday , the central defenders are suspect , so the full-backs should be helping them not leaving them more exposed . |
| 17 | Now his hands are holding my head , holding me in , helping me not to fly away , apart , dissolve . |
| 18 | Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results . |
| 19 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 20 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 21 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 22 | The cat did n't protest , circling happily between the huge biceps , trusting them not to crush her . |
| 23 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've finished enjoying my not knowing . |
| 25 | If , for example , you asked someone not to smoke in your presence ( the right to ask others to respond to your needs and wants ) you need to respect their right to have different needs and wants and , much more difficult , their right to say no . |
| 26 | It 's a shame you ai n't got no 'ome nor fam'ly , but I do n't like to see someone not eatin' when they 're laid up , you need a bit of food then . |
| 27 | I mean I not very happy with the lounge either . |
| 28 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 29 | OK , OK , I 'm coming , put the milkbottles out , powder her nose , do n't let the neighbours see you leave , Ted , ca n't trust them not to tell the welfare and get my money stopped , find Frieda 's windcheater and out they go . |
| 30 | Last time I practically took my thumb off and apparently she does n't trust me not to do it again . |