Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 's not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 2 | It 's absolutely ludicrous that it 's not advertised and that no one does anything about it . |
| 3 | I think at the outset I need to erm clarify Hambledon 's position , erm Hambledon 's position is that it objects erm to the new settlement on the basis that it 's not needed and can not be justified , and I would n't wish erm for the er Council 's position to be interpreted as anything less than that . |
| 4 | ‘ If you come out and tell a person to his face that he 's not selected and why , ’ I said , ‘ well , it might hurt but at least you know . ’ |
| 5 | And that often also means paying for your ex-wife if she 's not working or does n't earn very much . |
| 6 | if she 's not doing that she 's winding wool ready , she does |
| 7 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 8 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 9 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 10 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 11 | A man sits alone on a bus seat , desperate for the comfort of someone , or even a young female semi-innocent , to sit beside him , but trying so hard to look like he 's not caring and actually scaring everyone off . |
| 12 | It 's a living system , it 's designed to help you , if it 's not supporting and helping you then it must be changed . |
| 13 | But he 's not saying that right , you 'd 've thought he , he 'd actually come up and say er er he would have said that for , you know , for his sake and also for the good of the Party . |
| 14 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 15 | Tap tap tap all bloody day long , when it 's not singing or falling off its perch . |