Example sentences of "he not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It moved him not at all . |
| 4 | Maggie was about to tell him not to talk nonsense when Caroline arrived , clasping a man 's elbow in her right hand . |
| 5 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 6 | Pressure on the authorities not to send Mr Yang back to China grew on Tuesday when Amnesty International requested all its members telex John Major , the Foreign Secretary , urging him not to allow Mr Yang to be returned ‘ under any circumstances ’ . |
| 7 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 8 | ‘ I begged him not to and he stopped . ’ |
| 9 | She claimed he then forced his fingers into her , causing pain and threatened to insert his truncheon — only stopping after she begged him not to . |
| 10 | She said he only refrained from inserting his truncheon into her , after she begged him not to . |
| 11 | Yer not losing out on anything by him not talking to you . |
| 12 | In old age he used to regret that he did so well in the classical scholarship because it caused him not to read history . |
| 13 | The seven evenings under Temple gave him not much new , because he had read Temple . |
| 14 | Eric Abbott , his best man , had once begged him not to become a bishop in England . |
| 15 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 16 | Malcolm told him not to be so stupid . |
| 17 | He had a limited vocabulary and she had stopped telling him not to be blasphemous twenty years ago . |
| 18 | Erika , who had never set eyes on Hetta in her life , stoutly agreed , and even Paul , making a dishevelled appearance , said with his new courtliness that he would like to meet her , causing Frau Nordern to raise a sceptical eyebrow and warn him not to be sarcastic at that time of the morning . |
| 19 | Jack wrote a poem to Warnie , urging him not to look back out of the car window as it hurtled away , leaving their childhood behind them . |
| 20 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 21 | Within hours of saying on BBC radio that his candidacy was ‘ almost certain , ’ Sir Anthony , MP for Clwyd North-west , was summoned by Mr Cranley Onslow , chairman of the backbenchers ' 1922 Committee , who told him not to damage the party at a difficult mid-term juncture . |
| 22 | Along with four other intellectuals , including Regis Debray , feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter signed an open letter to Mr Jospin , saying that the scarf is a symbol of Muslim women 's oppression and warning him not to capitulate . |
| 23 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 24 | But Bill Alexander 's powerful new production of The Duchess of Malfi at The Swan treats him not as a lurid Jacobean sensationalist but as a sombre , death-haunted melancholic . |
| 25 | He said foreign mediators had asked him not to use force to break Gen Aoun 's control of the enclave . |
| 26 | He said foreign mediators had asked him not to use force to break Gen Aoun 's control of the enclave . |
| 27 | All based on a perfect understanding between the wickets — and him not telling me what to do and me not telling him . |
| 28 | I told him not to worry and that I was quite impressed and would be interested in managing the band . |
| 29 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
| 30 | I scampered to his window and begged him not to call my remaining number , but he did . |