Example sentences of "not [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 2 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 3 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Because you do not want me to . |
| 5 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 6 | If you do not want me to cons y'know if you put , this is a load of effing sh or whatever and then suddenly you suddenly realise that you might actually pass so you then I mean cross it out , I 'll pretend it 's not there , ok ? |
| 7 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 8 | Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team . |
| 9 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 10 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 11 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 12 | Do not regard me from ( the standpoint of ) your infirmity ; to you 't is night , to me that same night is morningtide . |
| 13 | Please do not ply me with biscuits ; I have no desire to set you a bad example by pigging myself . ’ |
| 14 | I am not going out of my mind , she thought , and if , at the moment , the outside world does not recognise me for what I am , my sister knows she has only to speak a word here and there , to take a decision , and who will listen to me ? |
| 15 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 16 | ‘ For not patronizing me like everyone else . |
| 17 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 20 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
| 21 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 22 | ‘ Nor you 'll not beat me into it neither ! ’ |
| 23 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 24 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 27 | But do not expect me in your bed , Prince Yuan . |
| 28 | Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory works and the lack of studying before exams . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a sad death , but it will not prevent me from returning to London tomorrow . ’ |
| 30 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |