Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 2 | After all , here you are in Nicole 's hotel bedroom , obviously believing that you were n't going to be finding a third party here as well . |
| 3 | Dr always insisting that she was n't campaigning for the legalization of cannabis . |
| 4 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 5 | ‘ I was also thinking that I was not feeling very well , I 'm tired , I do n't want to be here . |
| 6 | Meredith asked tentatively , fervently hoping that he was n't . |
| 7 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 8 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
| 9 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 10 | One conclusion about loose coupling was that it " helps to maintain the facade that formal structures are really working when they are not " ( Hughes et al. |
| 11 | I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best . |
| 12 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 13 | In Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 it was held that the defendants ' limitation of liability was unreasonable and therefore unenforceable under the Act ; a decisive factor was that in previous cases the defendants had settled claims without seeking to rely on the limitation clause , impliedly recognising that it was not reasonable . |
| 14 | I lay there realising that it was not true , but also realising something else . |
| 15 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 16 | While again emphasizing that he was not an engineer , McDonald described the Raybestos factory as ‘ the most modern I have seen . |
| 17 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 18 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 19 | ‘ Please , do n't apologise , ’ she murmured , wondering if this was another phase of the game , yet sensing that it was not . |
| 20 | I mean , as you say , there 's very few companies that offer any form of benefit to housewives , they 're either working or they 're not , they have a Health Master , or not . |
| 21 | No human is capable of truly knowing that they are not immortal , that someday the I that seemed eternal will cease , save in one moment ; the moment before true death . |