Example sentences of "[not/n't] to [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tale that could be believed , but what he wanted was to have a reason to be somewhere else , not to be here when the shepherd came . |
| 2 | She saw them come out , saw Feargal give a wide , devilish grin , before handing Terry into the gleaming white car , saw him carefully join her — and Ellie wanted not to be here when they got back . |
| 3 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 4 | But it was not to be quite as he had hoped either . |
| 5 | I wish you all Long Life — I 'm devastated not to be there and am scribbling this in haste in my dressing room . |
| 6 | One way to endure severe abuse is not to be there when it happens . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 8 | The freeboard , when the boat was under this load , was not to be less than 16in amidships and 22. ½ at bow ends . |
| 9 | Yet it ought not to be long before some healthy doubts begin to disturb this mood of self-congratulation . |