Example sentences of "be not [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 2 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 3 | No you 're not cos I did n't know what to put in the box . |
| 4 | Well I , I 'm not , I 'm not like I said , I just want |
| 5 | I 'm not and I bought last night ! |
| 6 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 7 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 8 | The striking thing about cases such as these is not that they failed — that is only to be expected — but rather that they contain suggestions that a proper claim might meet with success , although difficulty might attend mounting it . |
| 9 | It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 11 | But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor . |
| 12 | The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues . |
| 13 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 14 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 15 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 16 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 17 | It 's not that we did n't get on together , it 's just we had nothing in common . |
| 18 | so I er he said er no he said , it 's not that he said I do n't like people to tell me you 've got to do overtime today , he said , I like to be asked ! |
| 19 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 20 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
| 21 | It 's not that you did n't want the ball . |
| 22 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 23 | I think they are still claiming well it 's not that I did n't know , but anyway Ken |
| 24 | I think still claiming well it 's not that I did n't know , but anyway er Ken |
| 25 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 26 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 27 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 28 | ‘ He has left you a cottage in Devonshire , and he said : ‘ Tell her it 's not because she saved my life , but because she gave me a fourpenny cigar . ' ’ |
| 29 | It 's not , it 's not like they said . |
| 30 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |