Example sentences of "[noun sg] and i [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am born of noble stock and I am not too proud to admit it . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to see my team play good football and I 'm not stepping aside from that . |
| 3 | When we were walking over here this morning , I was suggesting to you that in fact computers , really , were numeric devices — they did arithmetic _ and I 'm not sure you actually agreed with me . |
| 4 | In , in , in , in one terrace and I 'm not gon na mention names again because the , the family 's still around , you know , and I do n't want to embarrass them . |
| 5 | ‘ Don Howe 's got us all on this exercise programme and I 'm not breaking any records in there but my general conditioning is OK . ’ |
| 6 | What has changed though is the refurbishment programme and I 'm not quite sure what Mr was on about about er er the refurbishment programme . |
| 7 | er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement . |
| 8 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 9 | David had a prawn salad sandwich and a cheese and onion sandwich and I 'm not kidding you , the sandwich was like that , they just filled it and it was |
| 10 | I 'd like to say that I 'm actually on hormone replacement therapy and I 'm not being monitored . |
| 11 | Is it a security lock and I 'm not turning the key round enough ? |
| 12 | ‘ I do think that men and women have different sorts of friendship and I 'm not sure that wives can ever understand male friendships . |
| 13 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 14 | For instance , in the hospital they were calling me Mrs , because er the stigma er , is so much , and I mean er , I even get called a single parent and I 'm not ! |
| 15 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 16 | I am a thinking nome and I 'm not frightened ! |
| 17 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 18 | I have two years on my contract and I 'm not about to go anywhere else . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I certainly did n't want to take part in the play and I am not at all at ease with those — those people . |
| 20 | It 's also the case and I 'm not trying to malign any part of the private sector and I certainly do n't want to be the subject of a libel action , but it is showing a tendency to grow in directions that are contrary to the hard won ideas of good practice in statutory provision . |
| 21 | Yes , dad , I 'm sorry son , something 's come up , and I 've got an important client to see this afternoon and I 'm not gon na to be able to make it . |
| 22 | You always have your meal in the kitchen and I 'm not opening the dining-room at such short notice , but you can go and sit in the front room if you want to . ’ |
| 23 | Wu and I were not us — not in any way . |
| 24 | They pay good money and I 'm not up there playing ‘ Heart Of Gold ’ , so they start getting upset . ’ |
| 25 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 26 | The Defence Minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whose Labour Party forced last Friday 's inner cabinet vote on the Egyptian proposal , dismissed talk of a deadlock : ‘ I have time and patience and I am not pessimistic , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Because it 's my wedding present and I 'm not a superstitious idiot like you . ’ |
| 28 | My hon. Friend 's suggestion is tempting , but I have not heard the record and I am not sure whether it ought to be released . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not a liar and I 'm not full of hatred , but I hate lies and so the liars hate me , ’ she says in her speech . |
| 30 | I watched them before I got the job and I 'm not going to stop watching them . |