Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] i " in BNC.
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1 | now this does not bother me as my presence is usually taken for granted . |
2 | But I find the whole performance so persuasive that this really does not bother me much , and I imagine other listeners will feel the same way . |
3 | It does not bother me now at all . |
4 | She said ; At first I was worried but now it does not bother me . |
5 | not after all this time , he 's probably calmed down now , but er if , if our mum and dad give me anything she takes the hump , but mum and dad can give Margaret anything and it does not bother me |
6 | The sound of automobiles wending their way along the road far below does not reach me ; I hear only a distant occasional cowbell and the cheerful nearer transactions of insects . |
7 | He does not serve me . ’ |
8 | For some reason , this strange conversation does not strike me as at all odd . |
9 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
10 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
11 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
12 | ‘ It does not make me happy . |
13 | Feeling guilty does not make me a better person . |
14 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
15 | ( 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 . ) |
16 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
17 | Maybe ‘ I did n't vote Tory ’ , but even that does not enable me to opt out of that responsibility entirely . |
18 | Certainly she does not show me them , of an evening , as we were used to do . |
19 | I think it would be better if she does not meet me on this occasion . ’ |
20 | I can only hope Mal Reilly does not forget me . ’ |
21 | ‘ Face facts ’ does not tell me what to do about the facts to be faced . |
22 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
23 | But — hoo-ha ! — this does not mean I have to stay in one particular mirror . |
24 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
25 | I obviously love to see Leeds win , and just because I 've predicted a draw , that does not mean I do not think Leeds are capable of winning . |
26 | Well , to clarify , I have a season ticket for Ibrox and I also ‘ support ’ leeds united , but since I see Rangers play every week , I would probably class them as my number one team — this does not mean I do nt like Leeds — its all a matter of prioritising the teams . |
27 | The rural patriarchy is anything but unthreatening in the autobiographical novel by Aldo Busi ( but on autobiography , Busi warns : ‘ I contain my book , my book does not contain me ’ : Mondello 1984 ) . |
28 | Age does not matter I like reading , travelling , making friends and photography . |
29 | My wife does not give me children . |
30 | It does not embarrass me at all to say that I did not approve of the principle of the community charge . |