Example sentences of "[not/n't] [to-vb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case relatives not present wish to view the body , great care should be taken not to cause them distress or offence . |
| 2 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 3 | An inquest has been told that a Jehovah 's Witness injured in a road accident died after relatives told doctors not to give him blood . |
| 4 | But at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital his family asked doctors not to give him blood , insisting it was against his religious beliefs . |
| 5 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 6 | Supporter Jill Tweedie , guru of the feminist movement , tells me : ‘ I think they must be careful not to make it part of American colonialism . |
| 7 | The ideal of the time was to arrange nature in such a way as not to make it look rearranged . |