Example sentences of "[pron] 's [not/n't] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 'e made a bit o' Welsh rarebit after some coaxing. 'E 's not as incapable as 'e looks , I 've come to 't conclusion . " |
| 2 | She 's not as cool as she used to be , you know . |
| 3 | Just that she 's not as daft as she looks . ’ |
| 4 | I bet she ate it , she 's not as daft as she looks . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's not as wide as she looks , ’ says Dominique excitedly , pausing a hair 's breadth from a bus . |
| 6 | She 's not as good as the new two |
| 7 | She has n't cut it badly Barbara , she 's not , she 's not as good as Lucy . |
| 8 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 9 | ‘ She 's not as soft as you might think . |
| 10 | She 's not as bad as all that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ AM ’ , ‘ ARE ’ , ‘ WAS ’ , ‘ WERE ’ Weak forms : ‘ Why am I here ? ’ ( before consonants ) ‘ Here are the plates ’ ( before vowels ) ‘ The coats are in there ’ ‘ He was here a minute ago ’ ( before consonants ) ‘ The papers were late ’ ( before vowels ) ‘ The questions were easy ’ In final position : , , , ‘ She 's not as old as I am ’ ‘ I know the Smiths are ’ ‘ The last record was ’ ‘ They were n't as cold as we were ’ |
| 12 | And she 's not as old as me either . |
| 13 | She 's not as sexy as me is she ? |
| 14 | And as Reg says , she 's not as dizzy as she sounds . |
| 15 | I 'm going to see a wee lassie tonight ; maybe she 's not as pretty as Helen , but after I have a word with her , then maybe , just maybe , she 'll let you put that cock of yours into action . |
| 16 | But she 's not as pretty as you , Hepzibah . |
| 17 | And what was it said was it your mum said she 's not very well or something , Mrs 's mother . |
| 18 | She 's not very attractive when she 's done up but she 's attractive when she 's like sweating it out in her cycling shorts |
| 19 | I said I said cos you do n't know but she 's a n she 's a nice girl , she looks alright in uniform , she 's not very bright but she 's brighter than some of the ones you 've got er give her a meet and greet job where she just has to smile and point people in the general direction of the bogs and things like that , er , I said and she 'll be alright |
| 20 | eventually if er she 's not very careful or they 'll be a fight |
| 21 | That that she 's not too nice and she 's not too horrible . |
| 22 | and you find erm people like Lynn you know , bless her , who now , who is n't too bad when she 's not too bad and is n't too good when she 's not too good , you know , and it is such a very very Not only can you not put anything visibly in in common with everyone that 's got it , even the people that have got it ca n't say I can not do this period , they say oh well I 'm not too good now but maybe last week or maybe next week |
| 23 | You can it 's fairly easy to distinguish between somebody who 's not very fluent because there 's something technically very difficult about the topic and they ca n't actually explain it and er and somebody who 's actually very nervous so you get different kinds of of er speech errors fluency and speech errors . |
| 24 | something Jeff Bridges who 's not very nice but steaming rich might have been found recently |
| 25 | Monetarily , I have n't any idea what it 's worth , er it 's not everybody 's cup of tea , it is a cockfighting chair and it 's not particularly beautiful but it 's very very interesting . |
| 26 | If accompanied by an intention to cause death it 's not just criminal but murder . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not just evil that frightens people , ’ Lydia reminded him . |
| 28 | He added sadly , ‘ It 's not yet certain that Elinor will ever again be well enough to live without nursing support . ’ |
| 29 | It 's not yet clear whether the size of garden or the number of rooms with taps would be taken into account . |
| 30 | In recent years fare rises on the line have outstripped inflation and it 's not yet clear whether the new private operators will be forced by law to contain their prices , as were the newly privatised phone and gas companies . |