Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] not come " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back .
2 has she not come , your friend ?
3 Why has it not come ?
4 She told me not to come round she did !
5 He advised them not to come into the off-licence with him .
6 ‘ I told you not to come in here again . ’
7 But Mr Quatt only grasped her arm , uttering in an urgent undervoice , ‘ I told you not to come , Araminta .
8 I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’
9 Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie .
10 ‘ I asked you not to come , ’ Kopyion said .
11 ‘ The theatre have told me not to come back , and Mrs Seager wo n't let us stay on . ’
12 Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists .
13 it must have been Thursday because I did n't want him to come , I said to Jim , tell him not to come we 'll just turn the whole lot off .
14 Did you not come away thinking that the urban development challenge of the century adds to little more than opportunistic chaos — an architectural circus — with a sprinkling of postmodern gimmicks , the ghastly mega-lumps of Canary Wharf and a fairground train to get you there ? ’
15 Instead , he had hardly begun before he was embraced by a Brahmin woman and was asked , ‘ Why did you not come sooner ? ’
16 ‘ My child , why did you not come back to your home ? ’
17 ‘ So why do you not come out ? ’ asked the guru .
18 ‘ Then , if you think that I have overstated the reality , why do you not come with me into the slums of Whitechapel or Limehouse ?
19 You 're allowed one and one only , do they not come back for seconds do they ?
20 ‘ If he reached the manor , why did he not come back to look for his master ?
21 If he is so concerned , why did he not come and talk to us ? ’
22 I think from what I 've heard , every shift had its own little methods of trying to turn people away or advising them not to come in .
23 ‘ I shall have to ask you not to come to the wardroom for some time after they come .
24 She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ?
25 Had she not come , it would have been himself against Araminta , and he would have won .
26 Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward .
27 She wanted to ask , Why had he not come ?
28 I was in no doubt that my lover had talent , but I had no doubt , too , that he would have remained either in relative obscurity or at the mercy of the likes of M. Chaillot and others had he not come across me .
29 But even so , why had he not come running to find out what was happening ?
30 I would n't have done that had he not come at me again . ’
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