Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is also true , we might not be surprised if the judge interrupted this witness and accused her of being facetious , or told her not to waste time . |
| 2 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 3 | I think from what I 've heard , every shift had its own little methods of trying to turn people away or advising them not to come in . |
| 4 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 5 | He said he was sorry and asked her not to contact the emergency services . |
| 6 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 7 | Sometimes he talked to it , and asked it not to kill him . |
| 8 | ‘ He was n't the type to moan and asked us not to complain until he got out . |
| 9 | He could talk to Michael Harvey and trust him not to make use of what he said . |
| 10 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 11 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 12 | ‘ And before I go tomorrow we 'll compose a joint letter to the two of them , pointing out how well we get on without them and urging them not to hurry back . |
| 13 | Back in Oxford I fax John a note telling him how much I have enjoyed working with him , and urging him not to get too red . |
| 14 | The camera comes between her and the audience and allows her not to tell the whole story . |
| 15 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 16 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 17 | He knew somehow that I was dealing with this section and gave me the serial number of a wagon and told me not to go anywhere near it . |
| 18 | The boss nurse gave her two minutes and told her not to talk . |
| 19 | Bejan greeted the 75 audience members and told them not to hold back — and they did n't , loudly voicing their preferences . |
| 20 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 21 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 22 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 23 | The pygmy king gave Herla a small dog to set on his saddle as a parting gift , and told him not to get off his horse until the dog did . |
| 24 | This time I simply wrote him a decent-sized cheque and told him not to worry about repaying it . |
| 25 | I got up , we were lying on the sofa , and knelt by him and told him not to worry . |
| 26 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 27 | ‘ A friend of yours called Bunny rang last night and told you not to forget that you 're playing at Christopher 's place this morning , ’ said Doogie , then nodded to himself , pleased that he 'd remembered his lines . |
| 28 | The treatment concentrated on reducing Esther 's spasticity in her left side , and training her not to over-use her right side . |
| 29 | A deputation of Baldwin , the Lord Chancellor ( Cave ) and the Duke of Devonshire was appointed to wait upon Bonar Law and persuade him not to resign . |
| 30 | In November 1988 Nelson was charged with threatening to kill a man from Sandy Row and warning him not to attend court as a witness in an assault case . |