Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know where they was actually , somewhere on The Chase I think but I 'm not sure where I 'm not sure where they come from . |
| 2 | The board saying they wanted to sell him will have made him think ‘ Why not , no point hanging round where I 'm not wanted ’ . |
| 3 | For three separate periods I have taken up quarters , each time for several weeks , where I was not known , and as a lodger have shared the lives of people … |
| 4 | ‘ Either I am pardoned , or I am not . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
| 6 | Edward 's ‘ forthright ’ , breathy style lends itself naturally to blues ( Mississippi Lad or I 'm not your fool any more , also featuring Waits on vocals , and the soft and low Ballad for a Bronze Beauty ) , but less well to the rest of the album , parts of which also have an oddly out of character Brazilian flavour . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me now , or I 'm not going to be able to . ’ |
| 8 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |
| 9 | Or somebody 's not there . |
| 10 | Something about moving their bottom jaw or summat in n it ? |
| 11 | Moon or summat were n't it ? |
| 12 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 13 | It also gave employers legal remedies against industrial action in which no dispute exists between employers and their own employees or which is not wholly or mainly about employment matters . |
| 14 | The main doubts about level and standards in higher education probably relate to new or interdisciplinary courses for which the criteria are not well established , or courses which have atypical entrants ( e.g. ‘ unqualified ’ mature students ) or which are not assessed in conventional ways ( e.g. with a heavy reliance on course or project work rather than unseen examinations ) . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) A statement as to whether the firm will undertake transactions with or for the customer in investments which are not on-exchange or which are not readily realisable investments . |
| 16 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 17 | Yes , okay , well it 's been lovely seeing you in n it ? |
| 18 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 19 | I love you , and I ca n't imagine a life where you are n't the centre of it . ’ |
| 20 | before going to any big event where you are not sure you will be able to cope ( eg to an interview , to a meeting , to a party , to an exam ) . |
| 21 | Where you 're not buying from a trader , you 're buying from an ordinary member of the public . |
| 22 | That 'll teach you , gilgul , trying to tag along where you 're not wanted . |
| 23 | You are either strong-willed or you are not . |
| 24 | You are an optimistic type , or you are not . |
| 25 | Either you are in showbusiness or you are not . |
| 26 | Therefore if you have a limited budget , or you are not sure if you 'll take to machine knitting , this would be a good machine to start with . |
| 27 | Lawyer A checked in his books , but said that it was as he had feared ‘ You are either insured or you are not . |
| 28 | Such a drug , he suggests , would be not unlike crack , and the poor shmucks who were n't UMC would love it , while those who 'd worked so hard for their privileges would despise the short-cut : you 're either UMC or you are n't , simulacra wo n't do . |
| 29 | Well , you are , or you are n't , laddie . ’ |
| 30 | You either are or you are n't . |