Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope , however , that you will not think me Panglossian when I suggest that we are now not far from that point . |
| 2 | I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter ; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall , and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one 's position . |
| 3 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 4 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 5 | You 'll not ketch me complaining about my lot |
| 6 | Nevertheless , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I think that this needs saying , quite calmly and objectively , in this commentary , which will not spare me when I have done badly or in the wrong spirit or left half-done , but will not either , in a spirit of false modesty , gloss over those things in my life and work which have been a success , even , mildly , a triumph . |
| 7 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 8 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
| 9 | ‘ It does not make me happy . |
| 10 | Feeling guilty does not make me a better person . |
| 11 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 12 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 13 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
| 14 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 15 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 16 | This will not make me too popular at the Richmond Athletic Ground or Sunbury and it 'll probably not happen anyway . |
| 17 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 18 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 19 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
| 20 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
| 21 | It can not make me change my mind , so if you intend using it use it and shoot me now . |
| 22 | When he can dig back and not make me angry . |
| 23 | But we have come out to catch that prisoner , and the Devil himself will not make me turn back . ’ |
| 24 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State 's comments today were so shabby and his speech was so shallow that he did not make me laugh . |
| 26 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 27 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 28 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 29 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 30 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |