Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discrimination between the local authorities throughout the country and the London boroughs pardon me are not included in this decision , in fact they 're exempt from it . |
| 2 | I mean I was n't born until nineteen thirty and I mean I I I can remember Jim well so he did n't die until probably nineteen forty . |
| 3 | I goes I 'm not bothered about the fact she 's getting off with him , I 'm just thinking , you know , it 's not fair on Peter . |
| 4 | And I goes well we 're smokeless and and she goes I 'm not bothered she says I 'll do you a swap . |
| 5 | I do n't know I 'm not bothered |
| 6 | ‘ How do you know I 'm not hurt ? ’ she mumbled angrily . |
| 7 | My annoyance at missing the fish turns to relief when I realise I am not snagged in the roots . |
| 8 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
| 9 | was there any furniture that you could buy which was n't rationed ? |
| 10 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 11 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 12 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |
| 13 | Pity you 're not called Simon Thospson , though , 'coz then you could make the anagram ‘ Hot on Simpsons ’ out of your name ! |
| 14 | It wo n't hurt her a bit if another dog growls at her , as it will make her realise she is not considered top dog by them . |
| 15 | ‘ First you say you 're not equipped , then you say go back to doctoring , then you say it may be good . |
| 16 | ‘ You say you are not lost , yet it seems unusual for someone to come across this spot . ’ |
| 17 | You must have somebody , a young fellow like you ; you say you were n't brought up in a home . |
| 18 | But someone sent those cars after us and whoever he is , he 'll soon know we were n't involved . |
| 19 | How were they to know we were n't kept late at work ? |
| 20 | VOLPONE : 'Fore heav'n , a brave clarissimo ; thou becomest it ! pity thou wert not born one . |
| 21 | As a senior diplomat said last week : ‘ The people went out and found they were n't struck by lightning . ’ |
| 22 | With no reason not to come in — since it was the spirit of the house that people should sit around the kitchen table talking — they seemed to sense a unity , to know they were not wanted . |
| 23 | Er they say they 're not worked hard well I think they have they 've moved er moved a few thousand tons from there and erm . |
| 24 | The Wedding Present want to make records but say they are not bothered how many they sell . |
| 25 | She added after a moment : ‘ I do know he was n't liked ; even as a boy he had no friends . ’ |
| 26 | If the would-be Finian was wounded he was not accepted . |
| 27 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 28 | I opened it and found it was n't signed , so I signed it and used it . |
| 29 | Weekly budgets also do n't describe what is n't bought — a television licence , a holiday , a night out , trips to the swimming baths , roller skates , the Radio Times , a pound of plums . |
| 30 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |