Example sentences of "it [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 2 | ‘ It should n't take me long . ’ |
| 3 | Oh oh he did n't say , he says oh just a , it 'll not worry me he says , whether you er start one or not he says . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 6 | Myth no. 4 : exercise increases the appetite , so it ca n't help me lose weight Actually , the very opposite is true . |
| 7 | ‘ This is just anxiety , I know it ca n't harm me ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It would n't hurt me to touch her . ’ |
| 9 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 10 | pass one of these round each and if , there 's plenty here so if you 've got any friends , neighbours that ca n't be here tonight for any reason then feel free to take one afterwards and , well it would n't bother me if I had none to take back . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course it would n't bother me ! ’ she replied at once , but she had the awful feeling that her denial lacked the ring of truth . |
| 12 | Mind you , if I could sell it , I would it would n't bother me you see all this . |
| 13 | If somebody put salad in front of me all the time , I 'd just it would n't bother me |
| 14 | If Patrick was homosexual then it might sadden me , but it would n't shock me . " |
| 15 | I wished I could say yes , I minded like hell , it would n't cost me much in the circumstances . |
| 16 | Oh no it would n't turn me on if their bollocks were hanging out |
| 17 | No it would n't turn me on but you could n't help looking could you ? |
| 18 | No but it would n't turn me on . |
| 19 | No it would n't turn me on |
| 20 | Well it would n't take me that long . |
| 21 | It would n't worry me . |
| 22 | Oh I , no , I could , it would n't annoy me , but you see a dog |
| 23 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 24 | If Madonna emerged as a classy lady it would n't surprise me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It would n't surprise me , ’ Masha said , ‘ if Likud carried out the massacre . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And it would n't surprise me if you won Best Actress , Jo . |
| 27 | Peter took it all quietly , of course , and it would n't surprise me if , when all the fuss had died down , he went back to his hotel and did a bit of painting . |
| 28 | It would n't surprise me to learn that the original Venetian audience ate , drank , gossiped and gambled its way through that first performance . |
| 29 | It would n't surprise me . |
| 30 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |