Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week .
2 So I said to him well mammy wants a freezer he said oh shut your mouth I 'm not getting you one .
3 ‘ Of course it is — what a fool I am not to get it till now …
4 But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on .
5 All I know is he 's signed a contract to play the part properly , and at the moment he 's not doing it .
6 ‘ Of course we 're not kicking you out . ’
7 As we were not due for another lesson till the next day I was n't carrying them with me .
8 Yes , he 's been home all day I 'm not doing it tonight !
9 Oh look at the back you 're not doing it properly !
10 So I think the seminar itself was n't giving you much new stuff , it was stuff that we 've already picked up in the course .
11 When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him .
12 and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now
13 Have no doubt in your mind about that because we did not take one of our representatives to negotiate with the guard force to enhance your and their membership that is not the ball game I 'm not playing it and we wo n't do that and you can rest assured we will pursue it to Bridlington if need be .
14 I 've got a funny feeling I 'm not inviting you round to my house !
15 Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow .
16 Come on this mental intrigue it is n't doing you no good !
17 ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’
18 Oh , I wish I had a two-pound coin for every toilet I 've burst into , hissing at myself : ‘ Stoppit will you for Godsake you 're forty years old will you stoppit STOPPIT GROW UP YOU BERK I am not crying I am NOT GOING to give them the satisfaction — waaaagh ! ! ’
19 She needed the companionship of suitable young people , he thought , and here on the farm she was n't getting it .
20 I do n't think we need to be too sorry at the reason we 're not getting it written is we 're far too busy lobbying MPs and making protests in the centre of town and things .
21 What are the things apart from the value of the item ones in erm you 're right Phil , by the way I 'm not saying you 're wrong .
22 Oh bugger me I 'm , there 's no way I 'm not doing it by the books
23 I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you .
24 When approaching a roundabout I 'm not testing you any more
25 Right now this time I 'm not telling you that the acceleration for some we wo n't bother writing it like that right we 'll write it this way .
26 the time I 'm not seeing him .
27 This time I 'm not letting you off so lightly — which is what I was actually doing when I had you dismissed from that other one , ’ he stated outrageously .
28 I 'm confident we 'll get something from the match but at this stage I 'm not saying we 're going to win it .
29 But is it so easy to conceive of a pain which is not hurting you ?
30 When we see a distant galaxy we 're not seeing it as it is today , we 're seeing it as it was a long time ago .
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