Example sentences of "[pron] not to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | " So — am I not to be married after all ? " |
| 2 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 3 | Suffer me not to be separated . |
| 4 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 5 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ Is that what you really want , Amy , for me not to be here ? ’ |
| 7 | It is impossible for me not to be absolutely certain of it . |
| 8 | It was important to me not to be silenced by the fear the anonymous caller invoked . |
| 9 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 10 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 11 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 12 | ‘ Daft of me not to be able to remember who the girl was , ’ he said , ‘ but I tell you what I do remember . |
| 13 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 14 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 15 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you that , ’ said Sam , indignantly , ‘ and you told me not to be so stupid . ’ |
| 17 | Edward advised me not to be fooled by this open confession of fraud : it was an early exercise in disinformation . |
| 18 | So I suppose one day sooner or later we 'll have to do this disgusting thing in order for me not to be barren , but I do n't look forward to it . |
| 19 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 20 | Mum told me not to be so silly . |
| 21 | I was talking to David this afternoon , and he feels it 's too much of a coincidence for me not to be Lilian Parsons 's surviving twin . |
| 22 | Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’ |
| 23 | On that occasion Moses urged them not to be afraid , and God responded immediately by ordering the preparations for his great act of salvation . |
| 24 | Enid : I would just give them a big hug and tell them not to be silly . |
| 25 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 26 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 27 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 28 | Reallocations will not be made automatically if the taxpayer has asked for them not to be . |
| 29 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) Counsel rightly did not apply for a discharge of the jury following D 's evidence ; the judge gave a careful direction to the jury advising them not to be affected by what D said in relation to TJ and properly warned the jury of the dangers in identification evidence . |