Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being subjected to volleys of ‘ Cheer up , grandad , it may never happen , ’ was not calculated to endear me to them . |
| 2 | Obviously a testimonial of this kind was not designed to endear me to a number of critics . |
| 3 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She confessed she had not meant to let me see it or sign it and said Joseph had promised to take it to America and sell it under her own name . |
| 5 | She burst into tears and said she had not meant to criticize me ; it was just that we did n't love her , nobody did , and she had only her ‘ things ’ to care for now . |
| 6 | The fatal addiction of the human race to trouble is something which , even at 50 , has not ceased to amaze me . ’ |
| 7 | You are not allowed to touch me or the box . |
| 8 | And you 're not allowed to touch me ! |
| 9 | The monster had promised to be with me on my wedding night , but he had not planned to kill me . |
| 10 | If you had n't stopped to give me a lift this morning , I 'd still be shuffling along the road to Tangiers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And hope my up-and-coming team-mate here has n't decided to annihilate me and grab all the glory for himself . ’ |
| 12 | They sent him home from school or something , send him straight home from school and er , do n't know I suppose take him to hospital today and then , I assume they 've got to bring him home and he said oh no he said you have n't got to take me home he said cos the boy 's got to be from school , come round tomorrow and pick you up |
| 13 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 14 | Why call me a name like that if you had n't wanted to call me Robin really ? |
| 15 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 16 | He was sorry , he said , but he was n't allowed to marry me because I was n't a Jew . |