Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I leave , my client begs me not to go . |
| 2 | And her soulful eyes and wobbling chin would be challenging the others , daring them not to join in ! |
| 3 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
| 4 | ‘ You trust me not to hurt you in any way ? ’ |
| 5 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 6 | He asked me not to misquote him . |
| 7 | The thing that 's teasing my mind is that I 'm fairly sure he asked me not to tell anyone he 'd been there . ’ |
| 8 | It was on one of these occasions that Guy Gibson was ushered into " Cocky's ' presence and , just prior to his appearance , the AOC had given me a slip of paper with the names of about 20 pilots whom he asked me not to recruit — as a favour to him — which was his style . |
| 9 | Now his hands are holding my head , holding me in , helping me not to fly away , apart , dissolve . |
| 10 | Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results . |
| 11 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 12 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 13 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 14 | The cat did n't protest , circling happily between the huge biceps , trusting them not to crush her . |
| 15 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 16 | If , for example , you asked someone not to smoke in your presence ( the right to ask others to respond to your needs and wants ) you need to respect their right to have different needs and wants and , much more difficult , their right to say no . |
| 17 | OK , OK , I 'm coming , put the milkbottles out , powder her nose , do n't let the neighbours see you leave , Ted , ca n't trust them not to tell the welfare and get my money stopped , find Frieda 's windcheater and out they go . |
| 18 | Well he will trust me not to invite rebels ! |
| 19 | Last time I practically took my thumb off and apparently she does n't trust me not to do it again . |
| 20 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 21 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 22 | When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it . |
| 23 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 24 | But just don , t expect me not to whinge about it . |
| 25 | Whereupon the father said , if you will promise me not to complain I will give up the note . |
| 26 | ‘ But you must promise me not to tell Uncle Jake . |
| 27 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
| 28 | A surgeon who immediately welcomed news of chloroform could reasonably claim always to have been aware of the pain although he had disciplined himself not to heed it . |
| 29 | I command you not to take yourself so seriously . |
| 30 | I 'll trust you not to tell the Josephs , but why should you want to know ? ’ |