Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 2 | He said he was sorry and asked her not to contact the emergency services . |
| 3 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 4 | Sometimes he talked to it , and asked it not to kill him . |
| 5 | ‘ He was n't the type to moan and asked us not to complain until he got out . |
| 6 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 7 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 8 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 9 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 10 | He knew somehow that I was dealing with this section and gave me the serial number of a wagon and told me not to go anywhere near it . |
| 11 | The boss nurse gave her two minutes and told her not to talk . |
| 12 | Bejan greeted the 75 audience members and told them not to hold back — and they did n't , loudly voicing their preferences . |
| 13 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 14 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 15 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 16 | The pygmy king gave Herla a small dog to set on his saddle as a parting gift , and told him not to get off his horse until the dog did . |
| 17 | This time I simply wrote him a decent-sized cheque and told him not to worry about repaying it . |
| 18 | I got up , we were lying on the sofa , and knelt by him and told him not to worry . |
| 19 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 20 | ‘ A friend of yours called Bunny rang last night and told you not to forget that you 're playing at Christopher 's place this morning , ’ said Doogie , then nodded to himself , pleased that he 'd remembered his lines . |
| 21 | He grabbed at my hands and held them to his chest and begged me not to say such a thing . |
| 22 | From the day of their first meeting , Paul Alexandre was struck by his prodigious artistic talents and begged him not to destroy any of his studies , offering him what little money a young doctor could spare . |
| 23 | I thanked the baker and begged him not to let Granpa know what I was about , as I wanted to close the metsieh before he found out . |
| 24 | A BRAVE grandmother smothered a knife-wielding robber with kisses and begged him not to kill her or her three-year-old grand-daughter . |
| 25 | He never liked the woman , but when she wept and begged him not to turn her out he weakened . |
| 26 | I scampered to his window and begged him not to call my remaining number , but he did . |
| 27 | MDU members felt that Batmönh was the only leader capable of making responsible decisions and begged him not to resign the presidency . |
| 28 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 29 | Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently . |