Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him .
2	He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word .
3	My family constantly warned me not to go into catering .
4	While the passing of time did nothing to lessen the Emperor 's appetites , it apparently did nothing either to improve his performance .
5	It obviously gave him plenty to think about .
6	Eventually she literally dragged him up to shake hands .
7	and Richard goes no Rebecca just told me not to do it , so you should n't
8	‘ I already told you not to waste time asking questions !
9	I just turned it up to stop .
10	as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there .
11	They 've got to a adjust the tie backs , they have n't put the tie backs up yet because they 've got to come down a bit , I just hung them up to let them drop a bit .
12	Just stuck it there to stop the door opening
13	Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted .
14	Then he opened the rear door and painfully eased himself out to stand , swaying , alongside the car .
15	His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me .
16	At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses .
17	And , of course , he always got someone else to pay for everything anyway , so it was n't any financial problem .
18	And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag .
19	‘ Such a strange-looking man , I 've always thought … khikhikhi … my father always told me not to trust men with beards .
20	Mother always told you never to laugh at other people 's misfortunes .
21	Nobody ever told him where to draw the line , and he 's not as innocent as he looks — he 's got quite a reputation for wildness . ‘
22	I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs .
23	Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth .
24	Four Warrior armoured vehicles spent the night guarding the convoy and 12 more joined it today to help negotiate its safe progress through Croatian-held territory .
25	It seems likely that his preoccupation with her promisingly clever older sister , Jenny ( Jane Alice ) , caused unhappiness in May 's childhood and further spurred her on to succeed in the practical arts .
26	I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages .
27	Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap .
28	They still felt it best to keep him there .
29	After asking what they would like to drink , Vitor provided cut-crystal glasses of vinho verde , but his duties as host quickly took him away to pour refills and greet other arrivals .
30	A BOY of three picked up a terrorist car bomb in the street — and innocently took it home to show his mum and grandma .

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