Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been my decision not to do any training so far this season . |
| 3 | My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom . |
| 4 | But I made up my mind not to move until the battle was over . |
| 5 | Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes . |
| 6 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 7 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 8 | if he does n't like her then I 'll tell my friend not to come . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ It is my policy not to say anything to the press . ’ |
| 10 | The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm in the prevention and protection business , so I 'd be failing in my duty not to warn you of the possibilities . |
| 12 | He was n't happy about it and extracted my promise not to try , on any account , to negotiate . |
| 13 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 14 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 15 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 16 | I thanked him and told him to tell my mother not to worry , I knew what to do . |
| 17 | Stressing the group 's opposition to water privatisation , he said its decision not to support a referendum was purely on grounds of tactics . |
| 18 | Brazil 's undertaking ( despite its decision not to join the ATPC as a full member ) to control wildcat mining at its Bom Futuro mine was expected to reduce production by cutting the mine 's output from 19,000 tonnes in 1990 to 14,000 tonnes in 1991 . |
| 19 | The Green Party plans to keep a high profile throughout the general election campaign , despite its decision not to field candidates in Darlington and Richmond . |
| 20 | Defending its decision not to disarm 20 per cent of its forces by May 1 , the FMLN claimed that the government had yet to disband the paramilitary National Guard and Treasury Police . |
| 21 | In April the UK government announced its decision not to renew its membership following formal talks in February between the Director-General and a UK Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 22 | Finally , the revenue has contended that the proper procedure was for Woolwich to seek to challenge its decision not to pay interest by way of judicial review , although it would of course contend that no order should be made on such a review in the present case . |
| 23 | The organisation 's uncertainty is shown by its decision not to have any particular point of view on the future of the European Community : a decision that makes more jaws than Mrs Thatcher 's drop . |
| 24 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 25 | It saw its function not to produce curricular prescriptions but rather ‘ to extend the range of possibilities open to teachers , and to provide them with the most detailed research evidence on which their judgement can be exercised ’ . |
| 26 | But he does n't mention the rise of slob sitcoms such as Roseanne or Married with Children , and its hard not to wonder about how he selects his evidence . |
| 27 | It took McAllister all her will-power not to wrench it from his grasp and to see and devour her work in one go . |
| 28 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 29 | Tony , she knew , would have seen an evening with her under those circumstances as a perfect battleground for another assault on her decision not to sleep with him . |
| 30 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |