Example sentences of "[det] [verb] not [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zoology was in an intensely experimental , laboratory-oriented phase , and this did not appeal to me . |
| 2 | This did not seem to me a reason for appointing a chairman ; it might be a reason for appointing some sort of official ; though in fact it would not be a sound reason for appointing anyone . |
| 3 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 4 | Crystal ( 1969 ) defines paralinguistic features as : ‘ … vocal effects which are primarily the result of physiological mechanisms other than the vocal cords , such as the direct results of the workings of the pharyngeal , oral or nasal cavities ’ but this does not seem to me to fit the facts . |
| 5 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 6 | I I 'm , this does n't seem to me , a very intelligent way , I I , somehow or other you 've got to get the parents , win them to behave properly towards the children without the threat of a heavy fine on their head . |
| 7 | Formal electronics schooling teaches you about resistors , capacitors and transistors , obviously ; I did hear about one school in Michigan that specialised in tubes , but that did n't happen for me . |
| 8 | ‘ That did n't occur to me . ’ |
| 9 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 10 | ‘ He will remain captain , and while other people will inevitably paint him as a so-called bad boy , that does n't wash with me . |
| 11 | That does n't sound to me like a club whose ambition is to be the best team in the country . |
| 12 | You see that does n't appeal to me , I 'm a sort of meat pie and potato |
| 13 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 14 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 15 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 16 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 17 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly , if two persons enter into an arrangement for the sale of any particular property , and try to settle the terms , but can not agree , and after dispute and discussion respecting the price , they say , " We will refer this question of price to AB , he shall settle it " , and thereupon they agree that the matter shall be referred to his arbitration , that would appear to be an " arbitration " , in the proper sense of the term … ; but if they agree to a price to be fixed by another , that does not appear to me to be an arbitration . |
| 19 | Fourthly , the appellants were never auditors of B. & C. That does not seem to me in any sense to be conclusive since the inquiry is into the affairs of Atlantic of which the appellants were auditors and as to representations made about it before acquisition . |
| 20 | It is , of course , true that some wrappers might come from the chocolate which had already been bought or from chocolate which would have been bought without the offer , but that does not seem to me to alter the case . |
| 21 | Well the lowest figure , erm we 've already got a level of commitment , we have to have three thousand de-allocations if that was the case , that does not seem to me to be correct . |