Example sentences of "'m [adv] [v-ing] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try . |
| 2 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 3 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 4 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 5 | I 'm not suggesting that you need to go quite this mad , but one , or perhaps two extra masts do make life so simple and easy . |
| 6 | I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 8 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 9 | no , no I 'm not saying that we did , we did evolve |
| 10 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying that she winds Daddy round her little finger , she does not . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying that it achieved er a great victory |
| 13 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 14 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 15 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 16 | Joe just put your hand up now just put your hand up I 'm just seeing that you remember your number . |
| 17 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 18 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 19 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |