Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's not [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a good pair o' lungs , ’ she smiled , ‘ but 'e 's not very big . ’ |
| 2 | 'E 's not so bad , ’ Nellie replied . |
| 3 | But 'e made a bit o' Welsh rarebit after some coaxing. 'E 's not as incapable as 'e looks , I 've come to 't conclusion . " |
| 4 | She is so cool and indifferent , so enclosed and private — when she 's not openly defiant , that is . |
| 5 | He says that she 's gone on longer than anyone thought , and she 's not even ga-ga ! |
| 6 | Yeah , no she 's not immensely tall she 's about five six ? |
| 7 | She 's not just another trollop and she 's obviously concerned about her father . ’ |
| 8 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 9 | She 's happy here , and if she 's not exactly helpful any more , at least she 's harmless . |
| 10 | She 's not exactly destitute . |
| 11 | She 's not exactly miserable at home , either . |
| 12 | Er well Martin does have an elderly mother , she 's not financially dependent on us as such but we do try and keep a track of her finances and if she needs help we , we erm help her out . |
| 13 | She 's not as cool as she used to be , you know . |
| 14 | Just that she 's not as daft as she looks . ’ |
| 15 | I bet she ate it , she 's not as daft as she looks . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's not as wide as she looks , ’ says Dominique excitedly , pausing a hair 's breadth from a bus . |
| 17 | She 's not as good as the new two |
| 18 | She has n't cut it badly Barbara , she 's not , she 's not as good as Lucy . |
| 19 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 20 | ‘ She 's not as soft as you might think . |
| 21 | She 's not as bad as all that . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ AM ’ , ‘ ARE ’ , ‘ WAS ’ , ‘ WERE ’ Weak forms : ‘ Why am I here ? ’ ( before consonants ) ‘ Here are the plates ’ ( before vowels ) ‘ The coats are in there ’ ‘ He was here a minute ago ’ ( before consonants ) ‘ The papers were late ’ ( before vowels ) ‘ The questions were easy ’ In final position : , , , ‘ She 's not as old as I am ’ ‘ I know the Smiths are ’ ‘ The last record was ’ ‘ They were n't as cold as we were ’ |
| 23 | And she 's not as old as me either . |
| 24 | She 's not as sexy as me is she ? |
| 25 | And as Reg says , she 's not as dizzy as she sounds . |
| 26 | I 'll tell you I 'm going back to Lucy next time , she 's , she 's alright Vivien but she has n't got it like Lucy , she 's not as particular . |
| 27 | I 'm going to see a wee lassie tonight ; maybe she 's not as pretty as Helen , but after I have a word with her , then maybe , just maybe , she 'll let you put that cock of yours into action . |
| 28 | But she 's not as pretty as you , Hepzibah . |
| 29 | She 's not very good . |
| 30 | Our , our last teacher does , but she 's not very good . |