Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it an advantage to a student to have something to react against , but this has not led me to struggle to reach firm conclusions on every topic . |
| 2 | Matthew Blake has n't invited me to do anything . ’ |
| 3 | Nor could I. Did you miss not 'aving me to talk to ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 8 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 9 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute . |
| 13 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 14 | The first lawyer with whom I worked , however , ( Lawyer A ) did not allow me to examine files . |
| 15 | Miss Andrews did not invite me to order that the sum should be paid out to Crossman Block on terms that they should not part with it without a further order of the court ; in such an event she accepted that it would be better that the sum should remain in court . |
| 16 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 17 | Here he bade me stay , saying that there was only the laboratory overhead , and that he did not wish me to enter there . |
| 18 | ‘ She did not wish me to know her family . |
| 19 | Either he did not wish me to get into trouble or , more probable , he did not relish the thought of giving me so much gelt — sixpence . |
| 20 | He said nothing , but frowned , and did not encourage me to enter . |
| 21 | Sir : I am surprised that Mr Prescott did not contact me to air his concerns on the independence of the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority ( 12 October ) . |
| 22 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 23 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 24 | But do not expect me to understand , let alone share , your views . |
| 25 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 26 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 27 | ‘ But you do not want me to do an article for the City Press ? ’ |
| 28 | But I have just explained , surely you do not need me to tell you . |
| 29 | well I know , well you want to label it so you know what 's on it just reminding you , you say , oh you 'll say you did n't remind me to write it down |
| 30 | Perhaps you did n't want me to talk to you . |