Example sentences of "they [verb] not [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 2 | They did not offer me works of comparable greatness as alternatives , so their objections were hardly a problem . |
| 3 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 4 | They did not refer me , and strangely I did not insist ; as patients do not want to hear bad news . |
| 5 | They did not push me out of their watering hole because I was unsuitably dressed , but because females are only admissible if they are willing to pose as deferential ‘ little women ’ . |
| 6 | And when I told them that in my country there were millions just like me , they did not believe me , but just smiled . |
| 7 | Existentially , they did not touch me at that moment . |
| 8 | I suppose I was lucky they did not kill me . |
| 9 | It was their own secret world , and they did not let me into it again . |
| 10 | They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me . |
| 11 | ‘ Only that the reason they did n't rape me was because if they were found out they would be killed . |
| 12 | They were heavy : I 'd have to wedge them in the middle so they did n't drag me down sideways . |
| 13 | Fortunately they did n't knock me on the head or anything which they could have done , could n't they ? |
| 14 | I 've never talked so much in my life and they were interested , they were , I got all sorts of things in , Britannicus and Henry VIII and The Broken Heart and The Winter 's Tale and feminine endings and they did n't stop me , they said go on — oh and Satan 's speech to Eve in the garden — I was in a place of my own — oh glory . " |
| 15 | You could always say , oh well er they did n't stop me and you claim about half a million hey that 's not bad drop something on your foot and say |
| 16 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 17 | They did n't strike me as particularly courteous . |
| 18 | ‘ No , they did n't show me their cards . |
| 19 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 20 | They did n't want me to wear saris . |
| 21 | ‘ I offered to coach them for nothing but they said they did n't want me , ’ he added . |
| 22 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 23 | they did n't want me to go naturally . |
| 24 | She says , as an adult , looking back , I know why they did n't want me . |
| 25 | They did n't want me ! |
| 26 | I am not surprised that they did n't tell me about it ; we had very little money in our house . |
| 27 | Madness runs in her family , but they did n't tell me that . |
| 28 | After all that , they did n't tell me what I had , except that it was not multiple sclerosis and that I was an atypical case . |
| 29 | ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . ) |
| 30 | Trouble is , they did n't tell me . ’ |