Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not know that Mme Bluot had asked me not to walk in that direction ( ‘ It is a street so disreputable , madame , it could lead a child astray . ’ ) , |
| 2 | In the face of their insistence and that of Arab League negotiators , he warned them not to settle for any deal which did not involve the withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 Syrian troops based in west Beirut and the hinterland . |
| 3 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 4 | Keep them to objective statements and re-remind them not to speculate on subjective reasons like ‘ emotional rejection ’ , ‘ lack of love ’ , etc . |
| 5 | Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it . |
| 6 | willi , willing and a a kindly nature but we if it 's in the middle of a game you know , and er , you know how you are when you 're playing a game well they 'd fetch me away to run for some cheese for an old lady . |
| 7 | The Board is entitled to require you not to attend at any place of work and they may otherwise suspend you from the performance of your duties under this appointment where that course is a necessary precaution in the public interest or otherwise in the interests of the Board pending the outcome of criminal , disciplinary or other investigations or proceedings and where no alternative course is reasonably appropriate . |
| 8 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 9 | Mr Guest , I must ask you not to speak of this business to anyone . ’ |
| 10 | Aye , sh , aye well I , I 'd s I 'd say to you there to start with dickerty gadgy do you ken what that means ? |
| 11 | This special feature tells you how to succeed with interior design . |
| 12 | There are detailed guidelines , for example in The MLA Style Manual or the MHRA Style Book , to tell you how to deal with all kinds of complicated cases . |
| 13 | Several of the chapters in this book have had the aim of showing you how to deal with difficult situations and how to get what you want . |
| 14 | Basically , if you write a manual for somebody else to use , then er there 's a standard layout of manuals , computer manuals , that is to have a Getting Started section , tells you how to instal in some of the basics like how to start it running , erm , the How To section is very important . |
| 15 | This chapter shows you how to care for such flowers before they are pressed , and also gives a whole range of ideas for sentimental flower pictures . |
| 16 | I could n't yet hear the jungle drums that told you where to go on any particular day . |
| 17 | Mother always told you never to laugh at other people 's misfortunes . |
| 18 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 19 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 20 | I thought , at first , of Jean Hastie and of summoning her down to deal with this . |
| 21 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 22 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 23 | But I spoke with Mr about half an hour ago on the telephone , told him not to worry at all , that |
| 24 | They had n't made an arrangement to meet , even , she had visitors coming for the night , official ones to see her father , she had to help him ‘ entertain' , she 'd told him not to phone at all . |
| 25 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |
| 26 | Telling her not to speak to strange men would be like asking if the Pope was free on Sunday . |
| 27 | God knows it is hard enough to get him off to sleep in that place and he 's asleep now . " |
| 28 | Talking during the week with a veteran of the ANC — a man who has opposed Smith publicly and privately for years — I was surprised to hear him say , ‘ Whether the PM was right or wrong , we must assist him now to look into this idea of a change of heart . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 30 | It made Claudia stare for a moment , but she was too concerned with the man who had forced her here to worry about other people 's bad taste . |