Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since I am not to see him or speak with him alone ever again , in truth it matters little where he is . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Of course it is — what a fool I am not to get it till now … |
| 3 | ‘ All the same , ’ said Araminta thoughtfully , ‘ Papa says I 'm not to see you again till it 's over , and you 're either arrested or cleared . |
| 4 | ‘ Today he told me to deliver a packet and I was not to tell you . |
| 5 | I was not to know it then , but once the worst of the operation and shock was over , hospital was the best bit of this accident . |
| 6 | The amphiuma , from the same part of the world , still possesses all four of its limbs but they are so minuscule that you have to look very carefully if you are not to miss them . |
| 7 | ‘ And you are not to call me cara ? |
| 8 | She put her basket down on the pavement , held on to the woman with one arm , pulled on the man 's huge arm with the other , said to him firmly , if more than a little fearfully , ‘ No , you are not to touch her again . |
| 9 | You are not to show it to him ! ’ |
| 10 | You 're not to say I killed her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Rachel , ’ he said bitingly , ‘ you 're not to see him again ! ’ |
| 12 | You 're not to touch them . |
| 13 | I 'll give you a dish , yeah I know , I know you 're not to open them but I 'm just making sure that you know that they 're yours , now do you want a dish or not ? |
| 14 | You 're not to let her out of your sight ! ’ |
| 15 | Brian , you 're not to eat it . |
| 16 | No you 're not to throw them in the air . |
| 17 | You 're not to think I killed her . |
| 18 | And if you stay you 're not to tell her what we 're talking about either . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not to terrorize them , Nicholson , you understand ? |
| 20 | If you were not to accompany us I would have to find someone in New York . |
| 21 | She 's not to know I was supposed to catch yesterday 's plane . ’ |
| 22 | Say you 've written her a poem or something but she 's not to read it till she gets home . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | She is not to think she can get away with behaving hurtfully . |
| 25 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 26 | Her seat on the board was never formally revoked ; it was just that it was clear she was not to use it . |
| 27 | As they passed the stone pillars , Robbie took a fleeting wistful glance at her dream house , but it was just as well , she told herself firmly , that she was not to enter it again . |
| 28 | As it happened , Clara was wrong , but she was not to know she was wrong , and she suffered as much as though she had been right . |
| 29 | The Government must recognise that there needs to be a positive approach to young offenders if we are not to encourage them to grow into hardened and repetitive offenders . |
| 30 | We knew this meant that we were not to repeat it . |