Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 3 | Blessed are you , Simon son of Jonah , for this was not revealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven . |
| 4 | So unlike indeed that Jaynes ( 1976 ) does not refer to it as consciousness at all . |
| 5 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 6 | ‘ Do not speak to me of proof . |
| 7 | The two claimed they were engaged , since an lranian woman caught talking to a man not related to her by blood or marriage is considered a prostitute . |
| 8 | who knows you but is not related to you as husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild ; and |
| 9 | The USSR herself appears to acknowledge that Cuba and Vietnam are not bound to her by Party discipline . |
| 10 | Neighbourhood men are often the butt of jokes among section police about their laziness , because what the neighbourhood police do does not seem to them like work , and certainly not ‘ real ’ police work . |
| 11 | To the ancient moralists the Allazon was the man who laid claim to possessions and to achievements which did not belong to him in order to exalt himself more . |
| 12 | Those who would not bow to him in life , it says , now go down on their knees to his bones . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't bleat to me about fairness , ’ he rasped , his tone suddenly harsh . |
| 14 | So do n't speak to me of ingratitude . |
| 15 | Erm , a , my mother did n't speak to me about sex until I was pregnant ! |
| 16 | ‘ It just did n't sound to me like laughter . |
| 17 | But at least , he would console himself , I was n't driven to it by ideology , by politics , religion or prejudice . |
| 18 | ‘ Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’ |
| 19 | I did n't write to you in hospital , for fear of causing unnecessary concern . |
| 20 | I mean , three little toggle switches look great but you just ca n't get to them in time — they suck ! |
| 21 | I was only down there at the Spinners ’ , but I did n't get to her in time . ’ |
| 22 | Do n't talk to me about love . ’ |
| 23 | He wo n't talk to me about sex , or boyfriends or anything . |
| 24 | Do n't talk to me about credit cards , I just got the bill for my Christmas execesses today . |
| 25 | Do n't talk to me about choice with that . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't talk to me about help . |
| 27 | Wo n't talk to us in English . |
| 28 | Do n't talk to she about grub . |