Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 2 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 3 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 4 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 5 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 6 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 7 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 8 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 9 | Leaving behind hi-tech hospitals and computerized records did not bother me so much as leaving behind certain hard-won changes in birth procedures . |
| 10 | But this did not satisfy me either , so I ended up in Eritrea , having passed through Keren , Agordat , and Asmara . |
| 11 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 12 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 13 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 14 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |
| 15 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 16 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 17 | ‘ David , I hope your mother did n't think me dreadfully insensitive- ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It did n't bother me really . |
| 19 | ‘ She did n't strike me as worried . ’ |
| 20 | They did n't strike me as particularly courteous . |
| 21 | ‘ She did n't strike me as awfully thrilled with things , ’ he said , staring into the fire , remembering the look on Cindy 's face as she recognized him . |
| 22 | I had me tea with her and the two boys and she did n't press me any further . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Nigel did n't bring me home . |
| 24 | I 'm just a counterman , and if my boss knew my wife worked I should get the sack , because people would think he did n't pay me enough ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | And when she went back and she said er you did n't serve me yesterday . |
| 28 | This time he did n't send me away , but he went on annotating a report on his desk , without looking up . |
| 29 | ‘ He just did n't love me enough , ’ Suzie wailed . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |