Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [not/n't] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 2 | The Board is entitled to require you not to attend at any place of work and they may otherwise suspend you from the performance of your duties under this appointment where that course is a necessary precaution in the public interest or otherwise in the interests of the Board pending the outcome of criminal , disciplinary or other investigations or proceedings and where no alternative course is reasonably appropriate . |
| 3 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 4 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 5 | knows or has reasonable cause to believe that , because of the individual 's connection and position , it would be reasonable to expect him not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of his duties . |
| 6 | Delegates returning from the conference , held in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of January , says American officials tried to persuade them not to go . |
| 7 | Similarly , retired racing Greyhounds are often in need of homes , and although temperamentally these dogs are normally quite sound , it can be very difficult to persuade them not to chase cats and other smaller dogs when they are out for a walk . |
| 8 | Elderly people are being given food and water to persuade them not to vote for SWAPO and people are being shown videos of the Ethiopian famine and told that that is what is in store for them , according to Andimba Toivo ja Toivo , SWAPO 's Secretary General . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister has been meeting Conservative backbenchers to try to persuade them not to vote against the Government on Wednesday 's Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I 'll even have time to persuade you not to run away from me after all , mus . ’ |
| 11 | We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony . |
| 12 | And even as he began , a top executive from Renault-Williams tried to persuade him not to go through with it . |
| 13 | OUTSPOKEN SDLP councillor Brian Feeney returns from the United States today to face a concerted bid by his party colleagues to persuade him not to quit his City Hall seat . |
| 14 | Eddie McAteer made a public call for the march to be postponed , but Fred Heatley , John McAnerney and Betty Sinclair visited him at home to persuade him not to pull out . |
| 15 | ESSEX are prepared to offer former England captain Keith Fletcher ‘ a job for life ’ in an attempt to persuade him not to become the next England team manager . |
| 16 | From the start , he was in conflict with the DUP 's leadership who tried to persuade him not to accept the local branch 's nomination to stand for the Assembly . |
| 17 | Trying to get them not to go on with all this looking and looking , seeing and seeing … |
| 18 | The court seemed to be afraid that if it allowed the jury to take account of one characteristic , such as sexual impotence , then it would be illogical to direct them not to take account of another characteristic , such as irascibility or bad temper . |
| 19 | You tried to convince me not to involve the police . ’ |
| 20 | Well I think that it must be recognised that the current state of demand and supply is going to make it very difficult for most applicants , and we would be concerned to advise them not to panic unduly as a result of that , and to make their choices on the sort of rational criteria that would apply in any year . |
| 21 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been trying to get you not to block it . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 24 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been trying to get us not to hush this case up . ’ |
| 26 | Just so long as you are not intending to ask me not to leave London . |
| 27 | Well I , yeah , can I , I 'll have to ask you not to record in school because so much is very |
| 28 | I 'm afraid , however , that I have to ask you not to bring anyone else with you ( I 'm not quite sure if you were intending to ) because it really would create problems . |
| 29 | The astonished Briton , who recounts the event in this new autobiography , also recalls how his Nazi host remarked to him after the general had finished spouting : ‘ I 'm sure it 's not necessary to ask you not to pass any information on to the Communists . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I shall have to ask you not to come to the wardroom for some time after they come . |