Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must not expect to deceive me , no matter how many others you manage to deceive . ’ |
| 2 | So you may have to wait till next year when I find a job for this year 's Christmas present — but this MUST NOT stop giving me his ideas as his birthday present is long overdue . |
| 3 | ‘ If you wanted that you should n't have sent me somewhere tame , ’ Maggie pointed out , nearly laughing as she said the word . |
| 4 | ‘ But you should n't have swatted me . ’ |
| 5 | You should n't have made me come down here . |
| 6 | ‘ You should n't have followed me . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you should n't have grabbed me like that , ’ she said crossly . |
| 8 | I could see she was feeling she should n't have told me , but I knew she trusted me better than anyone else . |
| 9 | You should n't have married me if you did n't trust me ! ’ |
| 10 | They should n't have left me at school . |
| 11 | ‘ But you should n't have left me alone . ’ |
| 12 | Ah well I can let me er say this , er you , you know how some programmes er you can have erm oh you may not know excuse me erm there are certain programmes which you can er put in eight eight eight and you get captions |
| 13 | And you might not want to tell me , if it 's bad . |
| 14 | Well the A D would perhaps , no I suppose it might not have reached me . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll not try to keep me ? ’ he said warningly , looking her in the eyes without a smile . |
| 16 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 17 | But along that bare and silvery rim of sand , any self-respecting wild thing could not fail to see me first . |
| 18 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 19 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 20 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 21 | ‘ He could not have denied me . |
| 22 | It could not have suited me better . |
| 23 | Were I her honoured guest , she could not have used me more generously . ’ |
| 24 | Brian loved me so much he could n't face hurting me . |
| 25 | Even in his suicide note he could n't bear to tell me . |
| 26 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 27 | If he really loved me he could n't have sent me away . |
| 28 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
| 29 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 30 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |