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 .
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