Example sentences of "not [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	It will not cover me for the hearing .
2	This , of course , did not affect me at the time !
3	do you not want me in the house .
4	Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team .
5	‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’
6	Do not treat me like an idiot . ’
7	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 .
8	Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received .
9	She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic .
10	He did not see me behind the curtain .
11	He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer .
12	‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won .
13	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 .
14	He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me .
15	Then why not join me on an exciting tour of Europe next year ?
16	" Then mark this , Master Harry : if you wo n't take Sam here on at fishing , you 'll not have me as a wife .
17	Byron would not have me in the larger house , claiming that the dogs would never tolerate my presence without howling all night .
18	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 .
19	He could not hear me above the din of the crowd .
20	Businessman Paul Watson , 42 , of Brighton , East Sussex , said : ‘ This does not surprise me in the least .
21	That is why it does not surprise me in the least to hear from my hon. and learned Friend about the letter that he received yesterday from Mr. Beck 's erstwhile cellmate .
22	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 .
23	The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative .
24	Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry .
25	He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact .
26	You 're a nice young gentleman and you 've always been civil to me , not treated me like a dog .
27	The risk of liver cancer associated with this did not bother me in the slightest ;
28	But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers .
29	‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said .
30	Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything .

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