Example sentences of "not [vb pp] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 2 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 3 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 4 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 5 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 6 | And he told me , he told me , I 've got it written on the back of me hand I thought it was brilliant that , I thought little do you know what I 'm gon na use that for he never phoned me for a , he 's not phoned me for |
| 7 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 8 | I was a player in a drama written and cast by Jean-Claude , who had not rehearsed me for it . |
| 9 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
| 10 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 11 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 12 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 13 | I hope this has not inhibited me from sharing some of their struggle . |
| 14 | She had not asked me of my previous experiences . |
| 15 | ‘ Why have you not asked me for tools , instead of breaking your finger-nails and your heart on firewood and trash ? ’ |
| 16 | He has not created me for nothing . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , well , ’ his lordship said , ‘ you have n't shot me in the kneecaps yet . ’ |
| 18 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 19 | I said ‘ Hello , you are looking well ’ , He said ‘ I do n't know you ’ , to which I replied ‘ I do n't expect you to , you have n't seen me for over 2O years . |
| 20 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 21 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 22 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 23 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 24 | ‘ Lee has n't told me about you , ’ said Lee 's Mum . |
| 25 | You have n't told me about her . |
| 26 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 27 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
| 28 | Any operations you have n't told me about ? |
| 29 | So — what is it you have n't told me about this man ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You still have n't told me about this evidence you have against me , ’ Claudia said with an assumed air of indifference . |