Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you should not ask me that , either , ’ said Sally-Anne , head erect , carriage proud , refusing to be won over . |
| 2 | ‘ You really must n't ask me that , Mrs McBride . |
| 3 | Randall , 38 , who hit more than 1,000 first-class runs for Nottinghamshire , said : ‘ I 've had a bit of cartilage trimmed off , but it feels fine now and should n't cause me any problems at all next season . ’ |
| 4 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 5 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 6 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 7 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 9 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 10 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 11 | ‘ You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’ |
| 12 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 13 | It was clear that Mrs Fairfax would not tell me any more . |
| 14 | ‘ I was hoping you would n't tell me that . ’ |
| 15 | I just do n't believe it , I 'm afraid , but he would n't tell me any more . ’ |
| 16 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 17 | ‘ He admitted that there was someone else , but he would n't give me any details . |
| 18 | You would n't give me some tea , would you , if I come home with you ? |
| 19 | he would n't give me some of these |
| 20 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 22 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I wish you would n't call me that . ’ |
| 24 | He ca n't cuddle me any more and tell me everything 's going to be all right , so he hits me to show he 's still the boss . |
| 25 | ‘ So you ca n't tell me much ? ’ |
| 26 | You ca n't tell me that was accidental . |
| 27 | You ca n't tell me any different . |
| 28 | He ca n't give me any straight answers about all this because he is only concerned with the state-run prison service . |
| 29 | Oh they ca n't give me any more . |
| 30 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |