Example sentences of "[pron] not to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 2 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 3 | He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Telling them not to post it tomorrow . |
| 6 | Now I told yous not to feed but no yous a fucking big shit , yous know it all . |
| 7 | Claudia stared blindly at the ground , willing herself not to blush , but unwanted heat swept over her . |
| 8 | Well I told him , I told him not to feed but they 're fucking |
| 9 | Well I 'd prefer him not to go but |
| 10 | The boy would speak ‘ say the Chorus from Henry V and I would go further and further away from him , forcing him not to shout but to make certain I could hear him . |
| 11 | ‘ Parents may think the best thing to do with a nervous child is to tell him or her not to worry . |
| 12 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 13 | Every instinct in her told her not to care , but as she had looked at him she had been all too aware of his lean virility and of her responses to it . |
| 14 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 15 | If you want it not to work use the slash B Okay slash B and that 's it . |
| 16 | Erm Gordon Brown is giving in , is he not to pressure from the traditionalists , when it comes to soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , he 's now saying , well maybe there will be a bit of soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , whereas he wanted to say , and you wanted him to say , no we 're not going to do that , we moved away from that . |