Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening when the booking and despatch department would start packing up to go , so would I and no one asked me not to . |
| 2 | Suffer me not to be separated . |
| 3 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 4 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 5 | Leigh travelled to London to meet the Goldsmiths later in July , but " found them not at home " . |
| 6 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 7 | After his selection and Police College training he 'd been slightly surprised to find himself not to be a component of an irresistibly righteous machine , but a member of an organisation that was as flawed and human as any other . |
| 8 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 9 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 10 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 11 | Ah yes , he knows , she thought ; and I do n't trust him not to suddenly humiliate me further — to send some remark flying the length of the table . |
| 12 | It moved him not at all . |
| 13 | say they not in their expertise , so I mean , it 's just an example of I mean , the old see a tourist shop and then I |
| 14 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 15 | The first is that to know ‘ I ’ by description is to know it not as ‘ that which is aware of something ’ or which has a mental state ’ but as , in Hume 's words ' ‘ a bundle or collection of different perceptions ’ . |
| 16 | If you want it not to work use the slash B Okay slash B and that 's it . |
| 17 | We are applying it not to everyday life , but to that aspect of the performance mode that is , at least incipiently , present in dramatic playing . |
| 18 | Unthinking , he had placed himself not in front of the desk but at an angle to it so that he was closer to the pipes , and he wondered how long the interview would last because it was short of thirty minutes until the call to the Kitchen for dinner and the hunger pain pinched at his stomach . |
| 19 | In preaching at court he concerned himself not with conduct but with theology , proclaiming and elucidating the great facts of the Christian religion , reflecting and meditating on its joyful mysteries . |
| 20 | Edward advised me not to be fooled by this open confession of fraud : it was an early exercise in disinformation . |
| 21 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 22 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 23 | Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own . |
| 24 | He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections . |
| 25 | ‘ Mills laughed in their faces and told them not to be so silly . ’ |
| 26 | But I told them not to , protecting her … ’ |
| 27 | I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case . |
| 28 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 29 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 30 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |