Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , since theirs is not to reason why , they attack , with disastrous consequences . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's not to move . |
| 3 | Amanda said I 've got to sto , she 's not to stop going to night school . |
| 4 | Alamena , Boz 's wife , is making life difficult for her , telling her she 's not to leave the camp and that she 's too free and easy with everyone . |
| 5 | Stanley , who was reading a paper , said to Mary Ann : ‘ Tell our Emily she 's not to go far . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She 's not to know ; she 'll be fast asleep before then . ’ |
| 7 | She 's not to know I was supposed to catch yesterday 's plane . ’ |
| 8 | So , if what she received from Beatrix is what the kidnappers want , she 's not to know , is she ? ’ |
| 9 | Say you 've written her a poem or something but she 's not to read it till she gets home . ’ |
| 10 | Wayne said tell Martine when she cuts your hair she 's not to cut the sides a lot , she 'll cut it , it 's quite different from the length between the sides and the back . |
| 11 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 12 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
| 13 | She is not to think she can get away with behaving hurtfully . |
| 14 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 15 | Since she is not to discuss the faults of the particular man involved , nor is there anything to be gained by arguing for the uninspiring Dusterandus , Leapor attempts to convince her friend that marriage per se is risky , even if there is some chance of a happy outcome : |
| 16 | ‘ My advice to you is not to waste your time reading that one , ’ he said rudely . |
| 17 | nine ninety nine well I supposed it 's not to miss |
| 18 | No it 's not to go together is it ? |
| 19 | It 's not to interface with more systems , there 's a lot more software in it and er therefore the companies concerned have got a lot more work to do . |
| 20 | Er it 's not to live there it 's just |
| 21 | you 've just taken a knock you did n't get the job , it 's not to say a job wo n't come up again now what you gon na do give up or keep trying ? |
| 22 | It 's not to say that we are against capital projects , we are not . |
| 23 | It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories . |
| 24 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 25 | The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people . |
| 26 | Why are they doing it , if it 's not to do ? |
| 27 | It 's not to do with the |
| 28 | It 's not to make you the greatest soul winner . |
| 29 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |
| 30 | As long as it 's not to make a rabbit 's costume . |