Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] i [det] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ Will you kindly not call me that ? ’ |
5 | But this incantation I use does not calm me any more . |
6 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |
7 | ‘ But why did you not tell me that at once ? ’ |
8 | She did not tell me that . |
9 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
10 | It was clear that Mrs Fairfax would not tell me any more . |
11 | Cathy did not cause me any trouble at first . |
12 | ‘ And you should not ask me that , either , ’ said Sally-Anne , head erect , carriage proud , refusing to be won over . |
13 | Do not ask me any more , it is dangerous knowledge . |
14 | But they keep my feet on the ground — they do n't treat me any differently . |
15 | After the initial , " God , you 've had a baby ! " , everything was normal , my friends did n't treat me any different really . |
16 | He ca n't cuddle me any more and tell me everything 's going to be all right , so he hits me to show he 's still the boss . |
17 | ‘ You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’ |
18 | I drink everything I earn , which does n't make me much of a drunk I might tell you . ’ |
19 | seeing him , of course , did n't make me any better . |
20 | ‘ Lady Lavinia , I beg of you , do n't make me any gifts ! |
21 | To realise that a crippled leg does n't make me some sort of oddity . |
22 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
23 | You do n't want me any other time , do you ? |
24 | ‘ You did n't hurt me that day , ’ she said softly , her voice breathless with the pounding of her heart . |
25 | ‘ But now , ’ Katherine pressed him , ‘ now you do n't desire me any more ? ’ |
26 | look at some the points , I 've heard , I 've been heckled yesterday do n't heckle me this week the section of level funding . |
27 | It was after that holiday , when they returned to Paris , that Madeleine said , one day : ‘ You do n't need me any more . |
28 | He was like the rest of the lifers , he did n't need me any more . |
29 | ‘ Just because you do n't send for me does n't mean you do n't need me any more . ’ |
30 | Oh because I lost them and my mum wo n't buy me any more . |