Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] i [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Feeling guilty does not make me a better person . |
2 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
3 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
4 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
5 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
6 | They do not give me a carved wooden cup though , something we all covet . |
7 | Frankenstein would not give me a wife , but he hoped to find happiness with a wife of his own . |
8 | ‘ The authorities will not give me a penny for my land ’ , he said . |
9 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
10 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
11 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
12 | He did not give me the money for either . |
13 | Why not give me the letter — unless there 's anything private in it — and the woman 's address . ’ |
14 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
15 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
16 | Could you not give me an outline ? |
17 | One kid in my neighbourhood , a Blood , came up to me after seeing this movie and he said , ‘ I 'm gon na go home and tell my mother she better not call me a motherfucker anymore . ’ |
18 | I can imagine a lot of beautiful things that , among their functions , will not tell me the time . |
19 | You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . |
20 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
21 | Just do n't make me a geriatric case , Doc . ’ |
22 | ‘ Too bad you could n't make me a mother . ’ |
23 | ‘ It wo n't make me a better player , ’ added Strachan , ‘ but it 's always nice to get a pat on the back . ’ |
24 | But that wo n't make me a freedom fighter , just another fascist ! |
25 | I defended myself when I had to , but that does n't make me a killer . |
26 | ‘ She said in her letter that she did n't think we could be happy living at Maythorpe House , that she 'd be lonely and probably would n't make me a very good wife . |
27 | ‘ I 've seen a lot of horse races but that does n't make me a jockey , does it ? ’ |
28 | It made me wary of Throgmorton — but it does n't make me a murderer nine years later . ’ |
29 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
30 | ‘ But that does n't make me an anorexic . |