Example sentences of "not [vb infin] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all . |
| 2 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 3 | One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all . |
| 4 | She felt sorry she had disturbed the usual calmness of a man she respected , but considered she could not apologize to him without either offending or encouraging him . |
| 5 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |
| 6 | Please do not refer to me as a girlie , I demanded of Bob , it 's insulting . |
| 7 | Bush for his part did not refer to them as " hostages " until Aug. 20 , when he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that the Iraqi attack on Kuwait was " a ruthless assault on the very essence of international order and civilized ideals " , and condemned the detention of hostages for having violated " all norms of international behaviour " as well as the tenets of Islam and traditions of Arab hospitality . |
| 8 | So unlike indeed that Jaynes ( 1976 ) does not refer to it as consciousness at all . |
| 9 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 10 | Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say |
| 11 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 12 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 13 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 14 | ‘ Do not speak to me of proof . |
| 15 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 16 | ‘ You do not speak to me like that . |
| 17 | Similarly , the young lady/old woman figure can not appear to me to be a picture of a young lady unless I possess the concept of age , and all the other concepts involved in that of age . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly , if two persons enter into an arrangement for the sale of any particular property , and try to settle the terms , but can not agree , and after dispute and discussion respecting the price , they say , " We will refer this question of price to AB , he shall settle it " , and thereupon they agree that the matter shall be referred to his arbitration , that would appear to be an " arbitration " , in the proper sense of the term … ; but if they agree to a price to be fixed by another , that does not appear to me to be an arbitration . |
| 20 | My body as it is for me does not appear to me in the midst of the world . ’ |
| 21 | Unlike the infant Stephen in Joyce 's Portrait , Titus does not appear to us through his own childish language , but through a " web of ritual " ( a phrase which occurs in the paragraph preceding our extract ) . |
| 22 | The European consortium did not appear to us to be particularly cohesive in their aims and objectives . |
| 23 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 24 | The Goldsmiths settled on £40 in 1480 , but did not stick to it for long . |
| 25 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 26 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 27 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 28 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 29 | You had to sign your name on the front , and you had to delete whichever does not apply to you of ‘ Mr , Mrs or Miss ’ . |
| 30 | The routines suggested are guidelines : some of them may not apply to you in your current work . |