Example sentences of "but they [verb] not [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 2 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 3 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 5 | There 's some people standing round watching me , but they do n't give me a hand . |
| 6 | The lake 's full of people — Mum wearing her Interviewing suit — Brian with knobbly knees under his grey schoolboy shorts — Gran in her Margaret Thatcher blouse — but they do n't bother me , they do n't bump into me . |
| 7 | I try , but they do n't hear me . ’ |
| 8 | They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me . |
| 9 | Madness runs in her family , but they did n't tell me that . |
| 10 | ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . ) |
| 11 | But they did n't tell me about this . |
| 12 | Sadly , they did n't let me — you do n't have to put this in here — but they did n't let me finish correcting the proofs , cos one of those things , four times is enough . |
| 13 | I do n't know where I am or who these people are , but they have n't harmed me . |