Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [verb] me " in BNC.
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1 | You 're not just stringing me along ? |
2 | ‘ Oh , really , ’ Merrill said wearily , ‘ you 're not still accusing me of trying to lure Rob away from Heather ? ’ |
3 | you 're not only hurting me and my present wife and my two children , you are also hurting my ex-wife and my son . |
4 | ‘ You 're not seriously expecting me to believe that ? ’ |
5 | ‘ You 're not really seeing me , are you ? ’ she accused harshly . |
6 | ‘ I 'm not running away , and you 're not about to bite me . |
7 | But of course , you are n't out to trap me into matrimony , so it is easier for you to be frank . |
8 | Deliberately avoiding eye contact and slightly quickening my pace were not enough to get me by . |
9 | ‘ He just said : ‘ Tell her : ‘ You always did say I did daft things if you were n't around to stop me . ’ ’ |
10 | I do n't carry a dinghy because I ca n't see there 'd be time to get it out — and subsequent events were n't about to prove me wrong . |
11 | As she put it : ‘ That man is not here to ask me questions . |
12 | It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere . |
13 | Now er she 's not here to hear me say it , ungallantly she 's Julie 's overweight now and she was pretty overweight then was n't she ? |
14 | It 's not much point me just sort of reciting the percentages . |
15 | Well I mean I 'm not going away this year , but it 's not really bothered me an awful lot |
16 | Also , if anybody 's not actually paid me for their book that they actually purchased last week , I 'm open to accept payment today . |
17 | He is n't about to tell me now , anyway . |
18 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
19 | He shouted and raged and Felipe was not there to help me . |
20 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
21 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
22 | Well she was n't please to see me , no . |
23 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |