Example sentences of "[pron] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I not to think aloud in your presence ? |
| 2 | Why was I not to know ? ’ |
| 3 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 4 | If , for example , you asked someone not to smoke in your presence ( the right to ask others to respond to your needs and wants ) you need to respect their right to have different needs and wants and , much more difficult , their right to say no . |
| 5 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 6 | An injunction is an order directing someone not to do something . |
| 7 | Gettier argued that they show the tripartite account to be insufficient ; it is possible for someone not to know even when all the three clauses are satisfied . |
| 8 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 9 | His mother was talking to the police at the time , but she insisted on dressing him herself , and told everyone not to touch him . |
| 10 | Although I 'm not being like one of these people who does everything and then tells everyone not to do it . |
| 11 | er I , I would n't , I told everyone not to get one . |
| 12 | He told me not to open my mouth to either of you and Una until such time when he would tell all three of you himself . |
| 13 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 14 | He grabbed at my hands and held them to his chest and begged me not to say such a thing . |
| 15 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 16 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 17 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 18 | He told me not to say anything so I did n't ? |
| 19 | ‘ It suited me not to deny it last night , ’ Ruth blurted and stared beyond him to a young palm swaying gently in the breeze . |
| 20 | Just so long as you are not intending to ask me not to leave London . |
| 21 | Nelly begged me not to leave her , and plucking up courage I stayed . |
| 22 | Something about the look on his face told me not to waste time asking questions . |
| 23 | Hugo Brassard keeps telling me not to give up hope . ’ |
| 24 | we had a meeting earlier this week were I got huge support , indeed some were urging me not to give way at all on the Paignton amendment . |
| 25 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , my Mum told me not to let boys fondle me or kiss me now I 've started me periods , otherwise , if I did , I 'd soon be having a baby . ’ |
| 28 | She handed me Little Ben , advised me not to let Home Sister catch me leaving it so late , and took herself off . |
| 29 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 30 | He advised me not to do so , as , he said , the Captain was a difficult man , and he had no intention of telling him himself . |