Example sentences of "not [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 2 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
| 3 | Whereas Wertheim has Seurat charcoals and an oil ‘ Study for La Grande Jatte ’ , Paley has important oils by Derain , as well as Cubist pictures by Picasso , Gris , and Braque that were sufficiently abstract not to appeal to the more traditional Wertheim . |
| 4 | Cloke said his instructions on Vaguely Artistic were to sit upsides the favourite , Market Leader , and not to go to the front too quickly . |
| 5 | First , his plan for the destruction of the bulk of the German airforce was frustrated through his being ordered not to go to Daba or Fuka , when his parties were within striking distance . |
| 6 | He decided not to go to a chain chemist 's . |
| 7 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 8 | When Peter got it so resoundingly wrong at Caesarea Philippi in telling Jesus not to go to Jerusalem under any circumstances , he received the rebuke to end all rebukes : ‘ Out of my sight , Satan ! ’ |
| 9 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 10 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 11 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |
| 12 | Best not to go to your patch . |
| 13 | But he was a tough boy and he determined not to go to pieces . |
| 14 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
| 15 | Perhaps what he really meant was that they could n't afford not to go to Nunes . |
| 16 | , writes : MY MOTHER , many years ago , used to sing a song about a miner , warned by his daughter not to go to work because she dreamed of a disaster . |
| 17 | Much of the International 's efforts were directed at reinforcing the resolution of European socialists not to go to war with each other . |
| 18 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 19 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 20 | She was n't sure if he would come , but it never occurred to her not to go to the rock where they had met before . |
| 21 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 22 | It does need teaching , though we must be careful not to go to the opposite extreme , as many courses do , and patronizingly treat adult learners like new-born babes . |
| 23 | Later , Tommy warns Ann not to go to the police , or tell anyone what has happened . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ First , because I have decided not to go to Australia . |
| 26 | You 'll promise not to go to the next race , on Monday , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 28 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 29 | I feared as well that Mills might not be dead after all , that he 'd recovered miraculously and decided for some reason not to go to the police . |
| 30 | She could have decided not to go to the bus-stop , because she foresaw that it would all end in her death . |