Example sentences of "[prep] he [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can still remember standing brushing his hair and then shouting after him not to be long because his dinner would soon be ready . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just spent an hour and a quarter waiting for him not to be here . ’ |
| 3 | I guess it made a stimulating change for him not to be surrounded by fawners and flatterers the whole time . |
| 4 | Nuadu wanted to cry out to him not to be so defiant , for the Robemaker could certainly not by vanquished in such a way . |
| 5 | But now , at this moment , she understood his inadequacy in personal terms , realized what it meant to him not to be able to move people , not to be able to find the encouraging word , the inspiring slogan . |
| 6 | At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's . |
| 7 | Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted . |