Example sentences of "[pers pn] not [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 2 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Josh told me not to disturb him . |
| 4 | a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there |
| 5 | He asked me not to misquote him . |
| 6 | ‘ If I ever have a man , remind me not to introduce him to you . ’ |
| 7 | But he had advised them not to contact him when they arrived in Bucharest . |
| 8 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 9 | ‘ I was to blame for ordering you not to harm him . |
| 10 | Well he does to me , and I 'll thank you not to call him a bastard ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I told you not to underestimate him . ’ |
| 12 | His words implied that there were two grades of fidelity : one which obliged a fidelis to promote his lord 's interests in all things , and another that simply bound him not to injure him . |
| 13 | He , previously so detached , was now begging her not to leave him . |
| 14 | The look he gave her decided her not to press him . |
| 15 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 16 | Linda Baughan , Donald 's sister-in-law , said he was still in love with his wife and had begged her not to divorce him . |
| 17 | It never occurred to her not to believe him , or even to ask for identification . |
| 18 | Robyn almost smiled with relief as she appraised his advancing figure — she already heard herself describing him to Charles or Penny as ‘ a funny little man ’ — but the strength of his handshake , and the glint in his dark brown eyes , warned her not to underestimate him . |
| 19 | Sometimes he talked to it , and asked it not to kill him . |
| 20 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember a major who begged us not to kill him , my lord . |