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 .
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