Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [conj] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've got to be up there challenging and if we 're not , then people will have a go at us . |
| 2 | I told him that we were n't eating and that we were n't paying the rent — almost destitute . |
| 3 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 4 | Piper has finished sparring and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds . |
| 5 | ‘ Does that mean you 're not saying or that you 're not sure ? |
| 6 | Besides , you know , it 's too trivial , there 's too many important things , like why have n't you got the special offer on display , to even bother to tell why you 're not , why you 're not performing or if anything is n't going right . |
| 7 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 8 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |
| 9 | This was a technique which made it peculiarly difficult to say when he was working and when he was not . |
| 10 | He nodded , the merest inclination of the head , to say , well , he did n't necessarily commit himself to agreeing but that he was n't ruling it out as a might-have-been either . |