Example sentences of "[coord] he [be] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
2 | He won two handicap hurdles last season over this course and has had two races to tune him up again and he is not badly handicapped . |
3 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
4 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
5 | Well , I think he was good player — but playing in that Liverpool side was nt difficult , and he s not really played for any other side so its hard to tell exactly how good he is . |
6 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
7 | And he 's not even heard of the Welfare State . |
8 | So basically they 've broken their contract with me and he 's not even responded to that letter . |
9 | As a young reporter in his native Liege , Simenon wrote 17 articles on le peril juif , and he was not unduly perturbed during the war when a German production company turned one of his novels into half of an anti-Semitic double bill . |
10 | Raistrick 's prime interest was in the biochemistry of moulds , and he was not particularly aiming to isolate antibacterial agents from them . |
11 | If the former should occur ( presuming whatever came out of the house did not destroy Cleo immediately , and he was not without hope that this might happen ) , he would draw his sword and attack . |
12 | The Prince of Wales would shortly be here , and he was not yet changed . |
13 | Tealtaoich was not exactly padding into the forest and he was not precisely slinking into it either . |
14 | In his autobiography Prokofiev admitted that he was ‘ not used to denying himself anything ’ , and he was not about to see a promising career inconvenienced by the Russian Revolution . |
15 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
16 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
17 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
18 | His point is that he is in effect running the equivalent of a small assessment unit but he is not actually getting paid for running the equivalent of a small assessment unit . |
19 | I ca n't prove anything yet but he 's not just making sausages , he 's got some racket going buying and selling stuff on the side and the money 's not going through his books . |
20 | But he 's not here to see it , is he ? ’ |
21 | Gregg was a larger than life character on and off the field — but he 's not about to put any pressure on his son . |
22 | He was a pioneer at one time , but he 's not really pushing for anything right now — just kind of playing the blues . |
23 | But he 's not really coming out with the answers . |
24 | Jerry so he said he had n't seen but he 's not necessarily going to . |
25 | In that year Cook claimed that he had one million clients and the business was stable enough for him to settle clients ' bills , but he was not actually running inclusive tours yet . |
26 | Richard was holding Beth 's other hand , but he was not so composed because everything around him was too exciting for a boy of such tender years , and so he skipped , and laughed , and sang , and teased Cissie about her ‘ po-face ’ . |