Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 2 | Well I 've made it not to if , if , if I , if I , if , if they 'd ordered , been ordered on my say so , I have made an autonomous decision , well you , there 's so many people in that place making autonomous bloody decisions , why should n't I do a few ? |
| 3 | Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to . |
| 4 | this trouble once with a with a young child and er I told this this this person er granny figure if you like , do n't talk to those children I 've told them not to they went on and on and on . |
| 5 | Mister Tom had told him not to be afraid of the earth , but it was still wet from the previous night 's rain and occasionally he let out an involuntary squeal when his spade contacted a worm . |
| 6 | I 've told him not to , and so has his dad , ’ replied the mother , ‘ but you know what boys are ! ’ |
| 7 | He 'd once used almost those exact words , and she seemed to recall that she 'd told him not to be so crude . |
| 8 | Andrew confided in me that if the officer had asked his permission to play the pipes on this occasion , he would have told him not to be such a fool . |
| 9 | Mary had told her not to be a fool , to come to her house and get a decent night 's sleep . |
| 10 | Adam had laughed and told her not to be dramatic . |
| 11 | When Lydia had marvelled to Betty about the horror of Elizabeth 's existence , Betty had told her not to be so silly . |
| 12 | She knew that Nîmes was a provincial city and would have preferred it not to be , seeing " provincial " in terms of the English nineteenth century novel , not of the Roman Provincia , Provence . |
| 13 | And if he would have preferred it not to be Frizingley , to be , in fact , anywhere else but there , he managed to quell his initial misgivings by the grim reminder that he would be unlikely to know anyone in St Jude 's now . |
| 14 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 15 | He phoned her several times a day to check she was there , even though both Susie and her manager had asked him not to . |
| 16 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 17 | If a reader had asked you if she should reveal all in a frank autobiography I think you 'd have advised her not to . |