Example sentences of "with [pron] not [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying . |
| 2 | The lawyer said Mrs Kennedy pleaded with them not to gag young Jonathan , who told his assailants he was only six , but they ignored her . |
| 3 | In an Exhortation to Released Prisoners they pleaded with them not to pursue their former vices of Folly , Extravagance and Dissipation . |
| 4 | To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police . |
| 5 | I pleaded with her not to make me do as she asked … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't hide it from me , Ruth ! ’ he said huskily , and she knew he was pleading with her not to provoke a violence he could no longer control . |
| 7 | Suppose Betty had come with her not to gambol on the blades of grass , not to ask her collaboration in salad-making but to keep an eye on her . |
| 8 | ‘ My huband pleaded with her not to tell me . |
| 9 | Ecclestone , president of the Formula One Constructors Association , had pleaded with him not to do it and added : ‘ I 'm frightened for him . |
| 10 | I pleaded with him not to leave me . |
| 11 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 12 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 13 | ‘ Another 45,000 guerrillas have secret protocols with us not to fight . ’ |