Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] not [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A friend of yours called Bunny rang last night and told you not to forget that you 're playing at Christopher 's place this morning , ’ said Doogie , then nodded to himself , pleased that he 'd remembered his lines . |
| 2 | It 's me that told him not to go cos I said , I did n't want to go this week and he did n't go . |
| 3 | One man , John Kelly , a former offshore worker and trained first-aider , claimed police told him not to interfere when he asked why they were not helping Mr Murphy . |
| 4 | She returned to her car , and a passing police patrol told her not to worry as she would get priority . |
| 5 | ‘ Did I not say that he was a good secretary ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you not go before we came ? ’ |
| 7 | Did you not think that your brother might be coming north soon ? |
| 8 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 9 | Well let me put it plainly , did you or did you not know that there were two children or three children indeed in that flat ? |
| 10 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 11 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
| 12 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 13 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
| 14 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 15 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
| 16 | Presumably he would have continued in the office for the whole of the pontificate , had he not died before it ended . |
| 17 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 18 | ‘ He was n't the type to moan and asked us not to complain until he got out . |