Example sentences of "he be not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were not to take her home , where would they go ? |
| 2 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 3 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 4 | Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up . |
| 5 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 6 | He is not to retaliate and must always be happy ; thankful for all the help he has received and act like a fucking Samaritan to those worse off then himself . |
| 7 | He must try to convince delegates that he is not to blame for Britain 's economic mess if he wants to keep his job . |
| 8 | He is not to walk out on me before I run out of steam . |
| 9 | He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup . |
| 10 | I suppose so , Rajiv , I suppose so , but he is not to come to the briefing . |
| 11 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 12 | Editor , — Does the surgical senior registrar who seems to have performed an unnecessary internal examination under anaesthesia without consent before an appendicectomy realise how lucky he is not to have been charged with battery ? |
| 13 | Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will have to tread more warily if he is n't to destabilize the housing market which has only touched bottom . |
| 14 | And he 's not to leave a bee-sting in it to prick me ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And if you explain to Thomas that he 's not to touch things like that , but must come and tell you when he finds one , then he 'll avoid any danger in future . ’ |
| 16 | Well you know what there like , try telling he 's not to wear a coat , |
| 17 | because you know the kind of material we 're recording bad language is n't gon na get an appropriate representation , and he 's not to worry about it on that |
| 18 | But erm I think the police realize as well that he is a bit of an agitator and he 's not to strike that 's wrong . |
| 19 | " He 's not to come back , " she snapped , banging the study door . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's not to blame . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's not to blame , ’ the other said . |
| 22 | It 's certainly the case that I appear to be hitched up with Tod like this , but he 's not to know I 'm here . |
| 23 | She 'd wept and said he was n't to talk like that . |
| 24 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 25 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 26 | I did that once , quite bad it was , my father was furious , but my mother said I 'd been trying and he was n't to do anything . |
| 27 | So did my father , he was n't to bother himself with the day-to-day things like washing sheets or buying food , that was her job , she made it plain . |
| 28 | Poor old Steven : he was n't to know that , while he had been busy trying to make grown-up movies , the trendiest kids had gone off Michael Jackson and the Ninja Turtles and transferred their allegiance to metal-headed dipsticks such as Bill and Ted , or Wayne and Garth from Wayne 's World , the year 's hotsiest hit-flick ( which comes down your way in May ) . |
| 29 | He was n't to know the truth , and yet , against all reason , she wanted him to believe in her innocence . |
| 30 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |