Example sentences of "not [verb] i [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I may believe Jesus ' teaching to have been exemplary , or that he was a man singularly in tune with God ; but this , as I would argue , does not make me a Christian . ) |
| 2 | But again this does not make me a Christian . |
| 3 | No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 5 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
| 6 | Frankenstein would not give me a wife , but he hoped to find happiness with a wife of his own . |
| 7 | ‘ The authorities will not give me a penny for my land ’ , he said . |
| 8 | And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances . |
| 9 | He did not give me the money for either . |
| 10 | ‘ He did not give me the poem , ’ Benjamin replied . |
| 11 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
| 12 | Why not give me the letter — unless there 's anything private in it — and the woman 's address . ’ |
| 13 | Could you not give me an outline ? |
| 14 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 15 | ‘ Lucenzo … you 're not leading me a dance , are you ? ’ she asked , lifting her unhappy face to his . |
| 16 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |
| 17 | Yu not doing me nu favour |
| 18 | One kid in my neighbourhood , a Blood , came up to me after seeing this movie and he said , ‘ I 'm gon na go home and tell my mother she better not call me a motherfucker anymore . ’ |
| 19 | You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . |
| 20 | I can imagine a lot of beautiful things that , among their functions , will not tell me the time . |
| 21 | I have come home and there is not left me a place on which to pitch my lodge . |
| 22 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 23 | ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’ |
| 24 | Lacking travel warrants , I could not have come home on leave had my father not sent me the fare . ) |
| 25 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |