Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] not [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It helped her not to think too much .
2 They helped her not to think too much .
3 I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’
4 I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’
5 Let us not attach too much weight to it , because the overall response rate from the 18 district health authorities surveyed was 15 per cent .
6 Well , let us not linger over these human paradoxes .
7 I said tell them not to bring too many cakes
8 " Doctors tell you not to drink too much .
9 Taylor was not only himself firm with Dissenters , but in a sermon which he preached before the Irish Parliament in 1661 he urged it not to have too much respect for tender consciences .
10 Well I would probably want her not to have too much less than what she 's got at the moment because
11 Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ?
12 Do they not understand how much people like myself love Morrissey ?
13 Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity .
14 Alderman Glover said that the corporation 's record would have been better had they not handed over some of their schemes ready-made to the NIHT .
15 My aunt and my mother were particularly fond of him , and when he had a stomach upset they fussed over him all the time , preparing special bland food for him , making him swallow Milk of Magnesia and advising him not to drink too much Christmas sherry .
16 Have you not heard as much ? ’
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