Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She pretended not to see me though , not that I care of course . ’ |
| 2 | She seemed not to notice me . |
| 3 | I saw you last night , though you chose not to see me , and I can not understand your casual attitude to life . |
| 4 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 10 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 11 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 13 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 14 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 15 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 16 | The woman was simply his mistress , whom for some reason he did not want me to meet ; or who perhaps did not want to meet me . |
| 17 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 18 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 19 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 20 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 21 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 22 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 23 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State 's comments today were so shabby and his speech was so shallow that he did not make me laugh . |
| 25 | The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute . |
| 26 | Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all . |
| 27 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 28 | Your Mr may have explained the position to Joe of Samuel McCauls Limited when he was over in Northern Ireland last September , but Joe did not inform me of your company 's position . |
| 29 | You did not choose me , I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit , the kind of fruit that endures and the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name . |
| 30 | I did not realise I had hurt you . ’ |