Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press . |
2 | The farmer 's wife held it in her arms , so that it could not jump at me . |
3 | How can you reach an acceptable level of data security and stop yourself falling into the ‘ it could n't happen to me ’ trap ? |
4 | " It could n't happen to me and , even if it does , we have all got to die sometime " is a common self-justification that almost belies belief when it is considered that a life threatening " pleasure " is nothing more than a mere cigarette . |
5 | Still , it would n't do for me to go around claiming the authentic Machin genes . |
6 | It would n't matter to me who was manager of Everton at the moment , they would still be toiling to turn things around . |
7 | Exactly as had happened in Normandy forty years before , I was quite sure it would n't happen to me . |
8 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
9 | Erm while I 'm having a look at this although it would n't seem to me to be taking too long to look at this Trevor , what you see on the table over there |
10 | After all , it would not do for me , a T'ang , to breach the Edict , would it ? ’ |
11 | ‘ I fear it will not agree with me . |
12 | That sort of thing might work with your little clique of boyfriends , but it wo n't work with me . |
13 | ‘ You are a good actress , but it wo n't work with me , ’ he snarled . |
14 | It wo n't come to me . |
15 | ‘ Internally she has to say , ‘ It wo n't happen to me ’ or , ‘ It 's part of the job . ’ |
16 | ‘ I can see how people get carried away , ’ she says , ‘ and I hope it wo n't happen to me . |
17 | ‘ It wo n't happen to me . ’ |
18 | IT WO N'T HAPPEN TO ME |
19 | ‘ It wo n't happen to me , ’ Lucy said . |
20 | ‘ It wo n't happen to me ’ is one of the more prevalent . |
21 | I said we 've got er , the best claims experience , I 've given you the one pamphlet , Women at Risk , which points out , women used to say , oh , a stroke it wo n't happen to me , cancer it wo n't happen to me . |
22 | I said we 've got er , the best claims experience , I 've given you the one pamphlet , Women at Risk , which points out , women used to say , oh , a stroke it wo n't happen to me , cancer it wo n't happen to me . |
23 | People say it wo n't happen to me . |
24 | erm For instance we know that , that erm in this country you ca n't get a mortgage without taking out fire insurance , and the reason why it 's mandatory in a mortgage is because if it were left to people 's whim they would n't do it , they 'd say , ‘ Well it wo n't happen to me , ’ and mortgage companies do n't like that very much . |