Example sentences of "not [verb] to me [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all . |
| 2 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 4 | ‘ You do not speak to me like that . |
| 5 | Mr has not spoken to me about this |
| 6 | Given its urgency , I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not write to me about such a detailed case , which would have enabled me to deal with it earlier . |
| 7 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 8 | I hope you 're not talking to me like that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’ |
| 11 | Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all . |
| 12 | Well they wan na , do n't matter to me at all I just think they 're dodgy characters . |
| 13 | Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’ |
| 14 | And I 'm telling you , do n't speak to me in that fashion or I 'll have to have a word with your father . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't speak to me in that tone ! ’ protested his wife , but nevertheless responding to the pressure of his hand in her back . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't speak to me like that ! |
| 17 | ‘ By God , you wo n't speak to me like that . |
| 18 | You ca n't speak to me like that . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't speak to me like that , Katharine ! |
| 20 | no , no you do n't speak to me like that |
| 21 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 22 | ‘ Anna has n't spoken to me at all , ’ confessed Seb unhappily . |
| 23 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 24 | If they mentioned him , she would mutter , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that rat . ’ |
| 25 | As one contracts manager put it , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that health needs nonsense , we 're just trying to keep the lid on . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't talk to me about those creeps , they 'll have me in their clutches soon enough . |
| 27 | Do n't talk to me about any band but the Heartbreakers because I just wo n't listen — these boys are newer than the New Wave and ( surprise ! ) they can play ! ! |
| 28 | You never wanted to discuss your work , you would n't talk to me about any personal problems ; sometimes I used to think that there was n't one single damned thing we could talk about . ’ |
| 29 | Do n't talk to me like that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't talk to me like that , Jocasta . |