Example sentences of "it [modal v] n't [verb] to 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 | How can you reach an acceptable level of data security and stop yourself falling into the ‘ it could n't happen to me ’ trap ? |
3 | " 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 . |
4 | It would n't matter to me who was manager of Everton at the moment , they would still be toiling to turn things around . |
5 | Exactly as had happened in Normandy forty years before , I was quite sure it would n't happen to me . |
6 | 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 |
7 | 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 |
8 | It wo n't come to me . |
9 | ‘ Internally she has to say , ‘ It wo n't happen to me ’ or , ‘ It 's part of the job . ’ |
10 | ‘ I can see how people get carried away , ’ she says , ‘ and I hope it wo n't happen to me . |
11 | ‘ It wo n't happen to me . ’ |
12 | IT WO N'T HAPPEN TO ME |
13 | ‘ It wo n't happen to me , ’ Lucy said . |
14 | ‘ It wo n't happen to me ’ is one of the more prevalent . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | People say it wo n't happen to me . |
18 | 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 . |