Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 2 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 3 | He asked me not to misquote him . |
| 4 | The thing that 's teasing my mind is that I 'm fairly sure he asked me not to tell anyone he 'd been there . ’ |
| 5 | It was on one of these occasions that Guy Gibson was ushered into " Cocky's ' presence and , just prior to his appearance , the AOC had given me a slip of paper with the names of about 20 pilots whom he asked me not to recruit — as a favour to him — which was his style . |
| 6 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 7 | Before he died he asked us not to make a formal complaint , that was the sort of man he was . ’ |
| 8 | Bizat says he always jokes that he torched it not surprisingly , because much of the rehabilitation was made easier by the obligation to start from scratch , and the insurance produced £18.2 million . |
| 9 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 10 | She was six years older so by the time I was 12 I was accustomed to propping my eyelids open well into the early hours , listening to her tearful ‘ he loves me , he loves me not . ’ |
| 11 | He says it not because , like the right hon. Lady , he challenges his party , but because he is afraid of his party — and one could never accuse the right hon. Lady of that . |
| 12 | Afterwards he told her not to report the incident because he could have her ‘ nicked ’ for soliciting . |
| 13 | He told her not to be silly . " |
| 14 | In a furious letter he told him not to interfere in Britain 's moves to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | In a letter he told him not to interfere in Britain 's moves to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 16 | He told him not to do that , he said just pay when you got some and |
| 17 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 18 | He told them not to concern themselves about him ; his overcoat was all right , and the woollen undervest they had sent was comfortable , thank you . |
| 19 | She looked away so that Trent would n't see her misery : ‘ He told me not to tell anyone . ’ |
| 20 | He told me not to open my mouth to either of you and Una until such time when he would tell all three of you himself . |
| 21 | He told me not to talk about the matter outside as it might not be to his interests if the facts were made generally known . ’ |
| 22 | He told me not to ask questions like that . |
| 23 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 24 | He told me not to put myself into my work , and not to poeticise things ( I am a poet ! ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know , he told me not to worry about supper tonight but to enjoy my afternoon out . |
| 26 | He gripped her gloved arm fastidiously in his gloved fingers and said , confidentially , ‘ He told me not to mention his name . |
| 27 | He told me not to say anything so I did n't ? |
| 28 | Yeah I mean I 'm not all I 'm not , he told me not to s actually say what was wrong with him though , I ca n't say . |
| 29 | He told us not to turn around and to give him our money and jewellery or he would kill us . ’ |
| 30 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |