Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |
| 2 | They helped her not to think too much . |
| 3 | Also , in today 's er Scotland on Sunday , gathered , they found it not just Edinburgh , but Britain as whole I think . |
| 4 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |
| 5 | They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’ |
| 6 | They told me not to bother to go in until the contractions became regular . |
| 7 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 8 | I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum . |
| 9 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |
| 10 | Vincent , baffled and angered by his parents ' pessimism , lost his temper when they told him not to write to his uncle and aunt in Amsterdam . |
| 11 | They told him not to act in a hurry , but they would like to see her . |
| 12 | Well , they told us not to wet it . |
| 13 | They told us not to wet it . |
| 14 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 15 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 16 | I 'd love to go in again , but they tell me not to go , but to remember how it was . |
| 17 | And so in the course of time , we come to speak of these rights as equitable rights ( because they have their origin in the protection of Equity or the Court of Chancery ) or equally we refer to them as " beneficial rights " because they tell you not who has the legal title ( the legal estate ) but who is entitled to enjoyment or the benefit of the land . |
| 18 | ‘ They pay you not to ? ’ |
| 19 | The people who most often admitted that they understood them not well were , in order ( worst first ) : unskilled workers , women , pensioners and skilled manual workers . |
| 20 | He came back readily when his name was spoken ; they saw him not tools-in-hand in his lodge under the church , nor frowning thoughtfully over his tracing tables , but naked to the waist and brown in the harvest-fields , swinging a sickle instead of a mallet , a slender young fellow with grass seeds in his tangle of dark hair , who might have come out of any cottage in the hamlet . |
| 21 | I am not convinced that this issue should be on the political agenda at all , not at this time , not at any time , in fact I am pretty convinced that this is a Tory agenda , a media agenda , why they do they not want to talk about crooks and spivs that support them , that donate thousands of pounds into their coffers ? |
| 22 | That 's where they store it not where they er play about with it . |
| 23 | If they order him not to do so , he will also be in an easier political position . |
| 24 | They forced her not to accept the house . |
| 25 | They have they not Cos I thought they were going to buy some of these drilling machines . |
| 26 | These passions are disinterested , in the sense that they excite me to help or harm you as in yourself attractive or repulsive to me , irrespective of further advantage to myself ; they treat you not as means but as end , if only as a negative end . |
| 27 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 28 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |