Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I am not writing I draw . |
| 2 | I am not suggesting we abandon it : the fact that we have not found ways to extract the information does not deny the existence of the factors or traits . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't care , I am not letting him have my car . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is raining , she has small children , I am not letting her walk alone , ’ I said firmly . |
| 5 | I am not letting you go till you say it ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am not letting anyone have my car , ’ I said . |
| 7 | And she said she said I am not having you putting down the value of my house and having yours higher than mine the value of my house . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not saying I believe that . |
| 9 | ‘ It is always nice to beat Boris although I am not saying I have proved I am a better player , ’ said the 24-year-old Stich . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 11 | The Socialists , though , are not taking it lying down . |
| 12 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 13 | We are not accomplishing anything keeping the Teller here , except to fuel more rumours . ’ |
| 14 | And there are similar slightly different arguments , for instance Descartes ' version which takes q = you are dreaming and argues that since you do n't know that you are not dreaming you do n't know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true you would not be dreaming ( see the first Meditation in Descartes , 1955 ) . |
| 15 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 16 | If you look upon Art as a frill , it is pretty certain you are not letting it play its proper part in the school . |
| 17 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ Major , we are not asking you to start the investigation again from scratch . |
| 19 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 20 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 21 | I do n't know when he goes , I have n't heard the story properly , cos I was upstairs and , er well Ron was half way upstairs and Eileen come on to the landing and I was in the bathroom , so I says I 'll come down , no she says you need n't bother cos we 're not staying we 've only just er come to see how you are |
| 22 | I ju , you 're not sending me to do it ! |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not expecting me to go home and wait till they shoot that boy on Friday ? ’ |
| 24 | I 'm sure sir you 're you 're not expecting me to make a a major contribution to this particular debate , but I felt that your the , various comments have been made around the table which would make it exactly clear where the Department stands on this issue . |
| 25 | You 're not expecting him to do that . |
| 26 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |
| 27 | They 're not taking it lying down . |
| 28 | I do n't think we need to be too sorry at the reason we 're not getting it written is we 're far too busy lobbying MPs and making protests in the centre of town and things . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're not suggesting we steal a plane ? ’ said Gurder , by this time totally horrified . |
| 30 | ‘ And you 're not suggesting he managed to remove his own body from the bedroom . ’ |