Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arcy gave a potted version , not mentioning that Bliss had instructed him not to warn his client . |
| 2 | Up to that time Parma had not been touched , and the Parmigiani had lived in the irrational hope that the Americans would not bomb the city because Toscanini , by then living in the United States , had persuaded them not to do so . |
| 3 | It was enough that a government official in the OEOB , with its mock-French , slightly creepy grandeur , right beside the White House , had told him not to tell anybody . |
| 4 | I was n't put off by the fact that Jo had told me not to call or see her . |
| 5 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 6 | On the night of 26 April , a nursing auxiliary had noticed Miss Lowe was hot and sweaty but Allitt had told her not to worry , said Mr Goldring . |
| 7 | And he was certain that the President had told her not to tell anyone where he had gone . |
| 8 | He forgot that he had told her not to write first . |
| 9 | Quite recently the King of France and the King 's own sister , Queen Margaret of Scotland , had been obliged in this way ; but now Queen Catherine 's uncle , the German Emperor Charles V , held the Pope virtually prisoner in Rome and had compelled him not to agree to Henry 's divorce . |
| 10 | He said foreign mediators had asked him not to use force to break Gen Aoun 's control of the enclave . |
| 11 | He said foreign mediators had asked him not to use force to break Gen Aoun 's control of the enclave . |
| 12 | Jack 's father had asked him not to mention the accident in front of the younger children . |
| 13 | The girl moved a few slow paces down the empty platform — she had asked me not to get out and help her — and then she stopped . |
| 14 | He did not know that Mme Bluot had asked me not to walk in that direction ( ‘ It is a street so disreputable , madame , it could lead a child astray . ’ ) , |
| 15 | The teacher accompanying the children had asked them not to sit along the back seat . |
| 16 | John had asked her not to go up to the loft . |
| 17 | He had asked her not to tell the police . |
| 18 | He had begged her not to leave just yet . |
| 19 | Linda Baughan , Donald 's sister-in-law , said he was still in love with his wife and had begged her not to divorce him . |
| 20 | Chapman , he said , had begged him not to let Buchan go , but at the same time made it clear that , because of his previous suspension for alleged financial irregularities at Leeds in 1919 , he preferred not to have anything to do with extra payments . |
| 21 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 22 | Sir Hal Miller , a former senior Tory backbencher , claimed that Sir Patrick Mayhew , then attorney general , had urged him not to produce evidence which would have cleared businessmen accused of exporting arms . |
| 23 | No one had ordered him not to say what he knew . |
| 24 | By 587 , however , Brunhild seems to have become the most influential figure at Childebert 's court , even though Guntram , when recognizing his nephew 's coming of age , had advised him not to visit his mother . |
| 25 | Having earlier described calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor as " a political witchhunt " , Bush reacted to the judiciary committee 's July 10 decision in an uncharacteristically muted fashion , claiming that his lawyers had advised him not to comment upon the issue . |
| 26 | Lock , 29 , said his lawyers had advised him not to comment on the case . |
| 27 | But he had advised them not to contact him when they arrived in Bucharest . |
| 28 | George Williamson and three other men did not hesitate to launch to the aid of Ralph Pottinger , even though the coastguard had advised them not to attempt a rescue , and they cast off from Scalloway Harbour at 2138 , aboard Challenge , a steel-built 36ft salmon work boat . |