Example sentences of "not [verb] you [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the interviewer is using your first name she/he will not expect you to return the compliment unless you are specifically asked to do so . |
| 2 | ‘ Major , we are not asking you to start the investigation again from scratch . |
| 3 | ‘ General Fakrid , I can not allow you to leave the command vehicle , ’ he stuttered reluctantly . |
| 4 | ‘ Now we can not and would not ask you to forget the clan 's honour , or your own . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not ask you to become the senior member of the board ; that place I reserve for myself , and there is also Lessing whom you have not met . |
| 6 | Centuries before Elijah , Joshua glimpsed the same syncretistic tendencies in Israel and delivered an ultimatum to the people : ‘ If it does not please you to worship the Lord , choose here and now whom you will worship : the gods whom your forefathers worshipped beside the Euphrates , or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living . |
| 7 | No , I do n't want you to see the screen |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want you to miss the evening 's performance . ’ |
| 9 | And , would n't want you to take the recorder , well I did n't . |
| 10 | ( Rule of Life No. 279 : People who say , ‘ I hear what you 're saying , ’ really mean they did n't want you to raise the subject in the first place . ) |
| 11 | But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here . |
| 12 | I did n't want you to find the letter before I 'd told you about it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But , ’ he went on inexorably , ‘ I had n't expected you to achieve the desired result in one short morning in a strange city . |
| 14 | I did n't expect you to do the same again — that is , if you had a day off tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , but as a County Councillor I did n't expect you to attack the idea of politically appointed Governors . |
| 16 | I 'm sure he did n't expect you to play the part to the hilt . |
| 17 | ‘ He did n't ring you to cancel the club ? ’ |
| 18 | Many manufacturers wo n't allow you to remove the machine 's case without automatically voiding your warranty : some go so far as to put seals over the case so they can tell if you 've opened it . |