Example sentences of "[not/n't] be silly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to the conversation , over the delicious Peking duck , and fresh cabbage washed down with a splendid Chinese wine , our host argued fervently : ‘ Tractors : do not be silly : what would you expect us to do with all the donkey minders ? ’ |
| 2 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't be silly , ’ she said , and she bounced off . |
| 4 | ‘ Hey , do n't be silly ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't be silly ! ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't be silly . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't be silly . ’ |
| 8 | Fearful that the widower will take his life , she rushes back to London , to a man grieving for a woman who once said to him : ‘ do n't be silly , there 's no hurry , we 've all our lives . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't be silly ! ’ snaps the woman , tugging her offspring through the throng . |
| 10 | If you had any doubts about doing anything , she would be the first to say , ‘ Do n't be silly , you can do it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't be silly Sarah , it might not be Angela , ’ Francis Morgan said , desperately . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't be silly , ’ the Woman said briskly . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't be silly , ducks , that 's all over now . ’ |
| 14 | So all she said to Bella , in a voice as flat and indifferent as she could make it , was : ‘ Do n't be silly . |
| 15 | Come on , do n't be silly . |
| 16 | And I thought : Do n't be silly , it is n't me . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't be silly , James , ’ she said with something approaching her usual spirit . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't be silly , Vic . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't be silly , I do n't hate you , I love you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't be silly , of course you will . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't be silly , Henry ! ’ she said , in a slightly querulous tone . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't be silly , Henry ! ’ said Elinor , in the style of a primary teacher , which once , years ago , she had been . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't be silly . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't be silly , Jessie . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't be silly , Charles . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , do n't be silly , Jessie . |
| 27 | Oh , do n't be silly ! |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't be silly ! ’ said Shanti , ‘ I 'm me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't be silly . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Rokeya , do n't be silly . |