Example sentences of "[verb] me not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Suffer me not to be separated . |
| 3 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 4 | Edward advised me not to be fooled by this open confession of fraud : it was an early exercise in disinformation . |
| 5 | I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case . |
| 6 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 7 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 8 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 9 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 10 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 11 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 12 | ‘ I told you that , ’ said Sam , indignantly , ‘ and you told me not to be so stupid . ’ |
| 13 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 14 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 15 | Mum told me not to be so silly . |
| 16 | Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah I mean I 'm not all I 'm not , he told me not to s actually say what was wrong with him though , I ca n't say . |
| 18 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 19 | Let me not to the marriage of true swine |
| 20 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 21 | You wo n't try to persuade me not to ? , |
| 22 | My family warned me not to . |
| 23 | O rack me not to such a vast extent ; |
| 24 | We behaved this way in days of old empire so it surprises me not at all that Japan may now buy The Belfry , of Ryder Cup fame . |
| 25 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 26 | ‘ Ahn asks me not to . |
| 27 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 29 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 30 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |