Example sentences of "not [verb] me to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Because you do not want me to . |
| 3 | Silas would not want me to be in a room where somebody such as yourself could have an ear pressed to the wall . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | She looked at me , slightly surprised , as if she had not expected me to be interested . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 8 | Before the hunt began , the mad bastard told me that if the yellow-haired mastiffs did not tear me to pieces , I 'd be pulled apart by horses . |
| 9 | Once I speak with her , tell her the truth , she will surely not force me to this marriage . ’ |
| 10 | Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest . |
| 11 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 12 | The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares . |
| 13 | You 're not asking me to and there therefore therefore |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Father Sophrony says of his ministry as spiritual director , ‘ the way is to pray every day with a flaming heart ‘ Do not permit me to be wrong in my work for this service transcends my capacity . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This did not endear me to certain people at BRM . |
| 17 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 18 | Looking forward to the circus , but could I ask you not to throw me to the lions until I 've got my accounts in order ? |
| 19 | ‘ And you have n't introduce me to your new friend . ’ |
| 20 | She did n't want me to … women 's things … ’ |
| 21 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 22 | The police did n't want me to be sentenced , which I was stunned about . |
| 23 | ( somewhere I think he did n't want me to ) |
| 24 | ‘ Then you really do n't want me to ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't want me to be hurt ? |
| 26 | ‘ You would n't want me to be vain . |
| 27 | ‘ If you do n't want me to — ’ she began . |
| 28 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 29 | I wanted to say a word , I know you do n't want me to . |
| 30 | Do n't want me er do n't want me to just check it ? |