Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 32 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 33 | And when she went back and she said er you did n't serve me yesterday . |
| 34 | This time he did n't send me away , but he went on annotating a report on his desk , without looking up . |
| 35 | ‘ He just did n't love me enough , ’ Suzie wailed . |
| 36 | Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’ |
| 37 | You could argue it was n't his fault that Clare was killed — or that she did n't love me as much as I loved her — and I 'd have to agree . |
| 38 | If he did n't want me here , I 'd be out like a rocket . |
| 39 | ‘ I did wonder whether you did n't want me there , ’ she said . |
| 40 | After a while , the bullying at school did n't affect me too much , and I was in my element with all the wildlife around me . |
| 41 | If it did n't make me so angry it would be laughable . ’ |
| 42 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 43 | India did n't change me that much . ’ |
| 44 | If it did n't upset me too much I liked to make her happy . |
| 45 | They did n't notice me so I made myself unobtrusive and listened . |
| 46 | He replied : ‘ Really he did n't impress me very much , to be honest about it . |
| 47 | ‘ I wish you did n't baffle me so , Charity . ’ |
| 48 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 49 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 50 | They did n't search me straightaway because it was time to change the guard at six o'clock precisely . |
| 51 | ‘ Your father did n't warn me quite what a striking young woman you had grown into , ’ the Princesse said in English with a wry glint in her eye . |
| 52 | I 'm sure when I op opened , I 'm sure when I got my T S B they did n't charge me that much . |
| 53 | Love did n't catch me entirely unawares — I had fair warning . |
| 54 | ‘ I 'm sure you did n't ring me just to tell me that , ’ she replied , in no mood for light-hearted flirtation , try to pin on a brave face though she might . |
| 55 | ‘ I suppose some people might have found it worrying , but it did n't trouble me unduly . |
| 56 | ‘ I saw him but it did n't get me very far ; he 's one of the old and crusted . |
| 57 | That did n't get me very far did it ? |
| 58 | I spent ten years faking it , and hating it , and it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 59 | I tried being John Carradine earlier this evening , but it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 60 | One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious . |