Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pron] [be] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's pretending it 's not there . |
| 2 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 3 | If that is the role of the Royal Family in a contemporary society , it is failing , but if it is failing it is not necessarily because the breeding and the education are wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ The Thing 's saying it 's not just a machine , it 's a sort of … a sort of collection of electric thoughts that live in a machine . |
| 5 | D' ya know what our Michael says when he he 's telling anybody 's not there he 's coming up here ? |
| 6 | But so would three or four other songs — here 's hoping they 're not too good for the charts . |