Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to thank you , I mean — and Rose — oh , dear … ’ and her face crumpled , but the steely resolution which lay beneath her outward charm prevented her from giving way to the hysterics which she knew would take her over if she allowed herself to show any weakness . |
| 2 | She had tried so hard not to like him as they shared a drink at the Crush Bar , especially after Daphne 's warning about his reputation . |
| 3 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 4 | You 're determined not to like me , to accept me . ’ |
| 5 | There is a minor mystery about this mode , for Tolkien might have been expected not to like it . |
| 6 | This is easeful music , and it is difficult not to like it . |
| 7 | The young seem disposed not to like it ; older people , among them Classical scholars , think better of it , feeling perhaps a greater reverence for the name and nature of Alfred Edward Housman . |
| 8 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
| 9 | Usually Aunt Louise would seem to be asleep , or not to realize I was there . |
| 10 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 11 | She stared at him and seemed not to see him . |
| 12 | ‘ Since I am not to see him or speak with him alone ever again , in truth it matters little where he is . ’ |
| 13 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose it seems like that , but it would have been silly to say no when he was prepared to come , after I 'd been so sad not to see him . |
| 15 | It was better not to see him again . |
| 16 | ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’ |
| 17 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |
| 18 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 19 | ‘ Rachel , ’ he said bitingly , ‘ you 're not to see him again ! ’ |
| 20 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 21 | Those on the sidelines tried not to see them or know about them , but it was difficult . |
| 22 | As they became aware of cinema audiences the vast majority of these intellectuals tended not to see them in quite such a negative way as Chaplin . |
| 23 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 24 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 25 | Martin waved but Louise averted her face , pretending not to see them . |
| 26 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 27 | ‘ She pretended not to see me though , not that I care of course . ’ |
| 28 | I saw you last night , though you chose not to see me , and I can not understand your casual attitude to life . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes — but not to see her lolloping from room to room any more — ‘ . |
| 30 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |