Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not to drink any more . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I was n't to know that , was I ? ’ |
| 3 | But I was n't to find that out for a while yet . |
| 4 | I was afraid to ask in case she said I was n't to come any more . |
| 5 | ‘ You are not to use that kind of language ! ’ |
| 6 | You are not to say that . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , you 're not to smoke any more . |
| 8 | Hey I 've told you , you 're not to take that from the W D and all ! |
| 9 | ‘ You were n't to know this would happen , ’ she cried . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you were n't to expect that . ’ |
| 11 | Athelstan translated as he read aloud : ‘ Did God really say you were not to eat any of this tree in the garden ? ’ |
| 12 | As it happens , blackmail is a little out of my line , but she was n't to know that . |
| 13 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 14 | The blood on my face was not mine — though she was not to know this . |
| 15 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 16 | He said we 're not to go any more on our own . |
| 17 | From reception we could see girls walking around , although we were told by a very heavy officer that we were not to get any ideas that we could walk around freely . |
| 18 | But in this case , apart from his introduction , we were n't to see much of him . |
| 19 | ‘ We got beaten today by the slow early pace which made her too keen and , in hindsight , a pacemaker would have helped , but we were n't to know that . |
| 20 | Above all , they are not to use any violence . |
| 21 | On the night of 30 January they were not to reach this sought-after retreat without problems , for they had first to call at the Palace of Saint Cloud itself where on arrival they found the entire Imperial Household drawn up to receive them and , equally clearly , determined to stay to dinner . |
| 22 | If it were not to do this , it would be no more than the futility of changing or avoiding the subject . |
| 23 | ‘ We both know why I 'm here and it is not to claim some long-lost family . ’ |
| 24 | But erm I think the police realize as well that he is a bit of an agitator and he 's not to strike that 's wrong . |
| 25 | When he bent that famous craggy face and strong jaw down from its natural elevation to the level of ordinary human beings it was not to advance any opinions or tell any anecdotes of his own . |
| 26 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 27 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 28 | Little did the young policeman know that he was not to see either of his colleagues alive again . |
| 29 | He was not to make another attempt , later tragically falling to his death from nearby Cousin 's Buttress . |
| 30 | It had come to harm enough , but he was not to know that . |