Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] not [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The noise does n't worry me . |
| 2 | Yeah , I thought of being that once but I would n't mind it in the wards , but I would n't want to be in the operating theatre , I do n't know why , the blood do n't put me off or anything , but |
| 3 | I was interviewed by Living magazine ( no , the irony did not escape me ) and also by The Independent , which published the feature in a section under the same name ! |
| 4 | Plus , of course , he admitted to himself wryly , the fact that the hours and the work do n't make me the ideal boy-friend , let alone husband . |
| 5 | ‘ But the wood did n't take me . |
| 6 | But the lying did n't help me in spite of the great performance I put on . |
| 7 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 8 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 9 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The game does n't bother me . |
| 11 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be forgiven if I tell you that the news did n't sadden me . |
| 13 | ‘ The inspector did n't tell me that , ’ I said . |
| 14 | The prospect did n't give me new heart , offering as it did yet another barren dimension to the future with Syl . |
| 15 | And the terrible thing is , the thought does n't fill me with horror at all . ’ |
| 16 | Now I trod softly , and at first the man did n't hear me . |
| 17 | That silly bastard that took the photo did n't get me in . |
| 18 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 19 | ‘ The concept of the company does not interest me - it 's the businesses that are important . |
| 20 | If the Company did n't move me , I 'd move . |
| 21 | I 'll give you that guarantee myself the company do n't like me doing this but I will guarantee . |
| 22 | The company have n't asked me to do it it 's just er erm just a personal thing . |
| 23 | And is n't it the luck of the devil that the master do n't require me tomorrow afternoon ? |
| 24 | The people back at the hotel did n't know me . |
| 25 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 26 | The others in the family did n't like me because I was n't of pure blood . |
| 27 | The sight of , say , a field of corn interspersed with poppies on a sunny day did n't move me ; the spectacle of a woman who had slipped and fallen in the street did n't move me — either to sympathy or to ridicule . |
| 28 | And then Molly plucked up her courage to say , as casually as she could , ‘ I wonder why the advertisement did n't tell me what dress to wear . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of the side-show did n't interest me . |