Example sentences of "not [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 2 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 3 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 4 | Apparently everyone was hoping that he would n't come back here , because his people moved out after he went to prison , and asked Mrs McD not to let him know their address . ’ |
| 5 | He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking . |
| 6 | She was determined not to let him know he still had the power to make her feel anything at all . |
| 7 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 8 | Cornelius had heard tell of bastards and how , if you ever met any , you should be careful not to let them grind you down . |
| 9 | ‘ We are determined not to let them ruin our motorcycling . ’ |
| 10 | I have tried , without , I hope , ignoring economic and social factors , not to let them obliterate what is after all the key to any historical situation — the men who thought or acted in this way or that . ’ |
| 11 | She chose not to let them know she had proof this was a deception . |
| 12 | Although she dislikes her father 's will — not to let her choose her own husband — she has no intention of rebelling against it . |
| 13 | It 's naughty of your mother not to let you have them |
| 14 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
| 15 | ‘ Mind you , I try not to let it cramp my style unduly . |
| 16 | I try not to let it put me off too much . |
| 17 | She tried not to let it unnerve her . |
| 18 | ‘ As long as it 's later , ’ he remarked with cheerful optimism , ‘ I 'll try not to let it worry me . ’ |
| 19 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 20 | Only in the evenings did I spend some time with Mr Rochester , and I was careful not to allow him to hold me in his arms or kiss me . |
| 21 | You 're not to think I killed her . |
| 22 | Their job is to apply it , not to change it to fit their own ethics or politics . " |
| 23 | Thus spake Esme , the first-rate pianist of Moose Jaw , and I became disillusioned , deciding not to ask her to marry me after all . |
| 24 | You 're not to say I killed her . ’ |
| 25 | I 've tried not to say I love you — ’ |
| 26 | That is not to say I consider I became , necessarily , a ‘ great ’ butler ; it is hardly for me , in any case , to make judgements of this sort . |
| 27 | The school 's Head Master fears that if they were forced to make alternative arrangements , many parents could n't to give them send them there . |