Example sentences of "[be] not [that] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 2 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 3 | One wrote that and then said , ‘ It 's not that I 've got anything against my husband , it 's just he 's pig ignorant . ’ ’ |
| 4 | It 's not that I 've come on my own because it 's something that is seen as just my problem , because as I said , Tom does n't seem that interested either . |
| 5 | It 's not that I want to die , but I just want to get out of my mind ’ . |
| 6 | It 's not that I want to play the most difficult things ; I really do n't . |
| 7 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If I do n't talk to you about your father , Alex , it is n't that I 've forgotten him , but Mr Morgan would n't like it . ’ |
| 10 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |