Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [not/n't] come " in BNC.
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1 | She told me not to come round she did ! |
2 | He advised them not to come into the off-licence with him . |
3 | ‘ I told you not to come in here again . ’ |
4 | But Mr Quatt only grasped her arm , uttering in an urgent undervoice , ‘ I told you not to come , Araminta . |
5 | I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I asked you not to come , ’ Kopyion said . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
10 | Instead , he had hardly begun before he was embraced by a Brahmin woman and was asked , ‘ Why did you not come sooner ? ’ |
11 | ‘ My child , why did you not come back to your home ? ’ |
12 | ‘ If he reached the manor , why did he not come back to look for his master ? |
13 | If he is so concerned , why did he not come and talk to us ? ’ |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | Had she not come , it would have been himself against Araminta , and he would have won . |
16 | She wanted to ask , Why had he not come ? |
17 | 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 . |
18 | But even so , why had he not come running to find out what was happening ? |
19 | I would n't have done that had he not come at me again . ’ |
20 | Yeah I really missed you not coming into work with me yesterday . |