Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not necessarily talking about hooking , just looking to score and utilise the gaps in the field , which can be very attacking in Championship games . |
| 2 | As to discrimination , we are not necessarily talking about someone being fired , sacked , or NRB 'd . |
| 3 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 4 | This is , without doubt , a book for professionals who are not only thinking about quality , but who want to instill a fundamental change in the way people think about and do their work . |
| 5 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 6 | What is different in the Banbury situation erm is that fact that you are not only talking about one school and it 's education because Banbury School draws not only it 's own eleven to sixteen year old children , who have the option to go forward to the sixth form , but of course all the children that come from the Warriner School at Bloxham , all the children that come from Drayton School , and a certain number of the children who might come from the Roman Catholic Secondary School in Banbury , so there are a whole lot more people involved than just the actual children , and that 's what made Banbury a hybrid . |
| 7 | you 're not exactly thinking about sex . |
| 8 | We 're not fucking arguing about this again are we ? |
| 9 | But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it . |
| 10 | Fighting inside the ring , I 'm not just thinking about myself . |
| 11 | To establish genuine intimacy , it is crucial that a couple learn to communicate with each other not just gossiping about friends , talking about the children or discussing world events but expressing their feelings , their fears , hopes , secrets , dreams , vulnerabilities , reactions , joys , irritations and depressions . |
| 12 | We are not just talking about an environmental nuisance here — we 're talking about a real threat to life . |
| 13 | Again , I am not just talking about romantic attachments , but also about simple friendships . |
| 14 | We are not just talking about information ; we are talking about the ability to respond to the living language . |
| 15 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 16 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 17 | I 'm not just talking about dirty nails — which is already unforgivable — but chewed , picked and bitten nails which do n't do you or your hands any favours . |
| 18 | the , the way we , the way I look it see , the way we 've been cut and slashed , and I 'm not just talking about high schools and first schools or anything right we 've been destroyed , we 've been literally thumped into the deck . |
| 19 | And be pretty sure we 're not as efficient as we sh as we should be and I 'm not just talking about |
| 20 | Were they , you know in , general you know not just talking about riveters , but in general for the the work the workforce ? |
| 21 | ‘ Do you want me to stay ? ’ she asked simply , and he knew she was not just talking about leaving the room . |
| 22 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 23 | When we talk of an increase in bank lending leading to monetary expansion , however , we are not normally talking about the behaviour of an individual bank but about banks as a whole . |
| 24 | ‘ We all need to feel safe , ’ he said , not really thinking about it , thinking about Emily . |
| 25 | He was not really thinking about Matthew Choak but about the dead man . |
| 26 | Cos you 're not really thinking about who it might be ! |
| 27 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |
| 28 | Not really talking about the issues , just |
| 29 | Well , we 're not really talking about traffic calming , we 're talking about a specific scheme in . |
| 30 | When when you talk about fearing God , you 're not really talking about being frightened of him , you 're talking about paying attention and doing what he wants you to do . |