Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not bringing me any supper . |
| 2 | I hope , however , that you will not think me Panglossian when I suggest that we are now not far from that point . |
| 3 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 4 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 5 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
| 6 | ‘ It does not make me happy . |
| 7 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 8 | When he can dig back and not make me angry . |
| 9 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 12 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 13 | So if it 's not causing me any symptoms I should ? |
| 14 | Because it would be one more reason for him not to set me free . |
| 15 | I was not pleased with this interview , and thought it was strange that the news of my expectations had not made me happier . |
| 16 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 17 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 18 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 19 | ‘ Er — you 've — hm — not told me any more lies , then ? ’ she strove desperately hard to get herself back together , although from what she could see of it Ven was n't objecting that his kisses had the power to scatter all sensible thought . |
| 20 | They 're all saying , it 's not doing me any good . |
| 21 | Kansas and the land of Oz were sufficiently far away not to keep me awake at night , but Darby O'Gill lived just down the road , somewhere in Ireland ; and his world of leprechauns and banshees was outside my window at night . |
| 22 | ‘ Will you kindly not call me that ? ’ |
| 23 | And Naomi makes the mistake , do not call me pleasant , call me bitter for the almighty has dealt very bitterly with me . |
| 24 | not giving me much chance to get done what I was gon na do though |
| 25 | So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ? |
| 26 | All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’ |
| 27 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 28 | But this incantation I use does not calm me any more . |
| 29 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But why did you not tell me that at once ? ’ |