Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You promised Uncle Albert not to get too close , ’ Dick reminded her . |
| 2 | ‘ I told Mrs. Bonnard not to try and cope with it on her own , ’ Richie said . |
| 3 | Macmillan eventually realised that only Australia and New Zealand would resist the pressure and advised South Africa not to press for readmission as a republic . |
| 4 | On his return Delors advised EC countries not to sign the planned declaration unless there were clear commitments on trade . |
| 5 | The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’ |
| 6 | She said that she begged Mr Pollard not to drive , he pushed her and told her to get lost . |
| 7 | He talked about being scared , started shaking and then begged Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 8 | He pressed Harold Macmillan not to recommend to the Queen that the choice should fall upon Ramsey . |
| 9 | Chancellor Kohl again urged East Berlin not to isolate itself and to open the way for change . |
| 10 | French authorities first asked Jacques Walter not to remove ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ from France in 1977 . |
| 11 | Why did Van Gogh not make that the centre ? |
| 12 | Did Mr Heseltine not know the law ? |
| 13 | ( 2 ) If Waqar and Wasim Akram were using a doctored ball then why did Aqib Javed not benefit from it ? |
| 14 | Secondly , why did Fr O'Dowd not make an official complaint against the Daily Telegraph . |
| 15 | Why , when the King did not arrive at Kinghorn , did Queen Yolande not send out a search-party ? |
| 16 | Why did Lord Beddington not contradict her if he ate no kidneys ? ’ |
| 17 | Did John Stewart not name him ? ’ |
| 18 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 19 | Had Joss Barnet not joined her this morning she might have felt quite differently about the plan . |
| 20 | Had Canon Wheeler not known , or had he known and not passed on the information ? |
| 21 | Derby controlled most of the game but would have been run closer had Craig Maskell not missed from the spot in the dying seconds . |
| 22 | Pinay was at first reluctant to pursue the project , which in all probability would have died an administrative death , had de Gaulle not let off a series of explosions of impatience with the footdragging of the Finance Ministry . |
| 23 | It was Barnsley 's first effort on target but was followed quickly by a second , a header from Andy Savile that would have won the match had Tommy Wright not produced a topdrawer reflex diving save . |
| 24 | ( Had Moira F. not looked , not moved ? |
| 25 | Secondly , it enables us to take account of the knowledge that , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said , had Saddam Hussein not allowed his greed to overcome his stealth by invading Kuwait last year , he would almost certainly have developed a nuclear weapon by the end of 1993 . |
| 26 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |
| 27 | Why , he thought idly , why had Walter Machin not appeared in the volume of autobiography ? |