Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This feeling was greatly strengthened when , six months later , Sir Robert was again approached about the Suez programme and again asked for it not to be shown . |
| 2 | I long for them not to be there . |
| 3 | Between Rudolfo and the gamekeeper there 's just enough of the land being cultivated for it not to be confiscated . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just spent an hour and a quarter waiting for him not to be here . ’ |
| 5 | Reallocations will not be made automatically if the taxpayer has asked for them not to be . |
| 6 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 7 | Harris would have kept her name out of it and she had forgotten , in her agitation , to ask for it not to be revealed . |