Example sentences of "be not [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | am not when I came to die seeing as I have not lived . |
| 2 | No you 're not cos I did n't know what to put in the box . |
| 3 | Well I , I 'm not , I 'm not like I said , I just want |
| 4 | I 'm not and I bought last night ! |
| 5 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I think they are still claiming well it 's not that I did n't know , but anyway Ken |
| 10 | I think still claiming well it 's not that I did n't know , but anyway er Ken |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 14 | It was not that I did not love her . |
| 15 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 16 | But this was not because I received no proposals . |
| 17 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 18 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 19 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
| 20 | It was not until I saw a sailor much smaller than myself performing in a Force 6 that it dawned on me that the answer must lie in a good technique . |
| 21 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 22 | It was not until I reached Redcar that I saw a Northern Echo placard lettered Death of King . |
| 23 | It was not until I met my current hairdresser ( who thankfully is still in the same place three years later ! ) that I realised the importance of a good head of hair , stylishly cut , well-conditioned and subtly coloured . |
| 24 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 25 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |
| 26 | It was not until I had been in the camp some days that I learnt the full story of the past . |
| 27 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 28 | It was not until I visited the SHAPE nursery in Belgium in 1969 , with my then grown-up daughter that I saw this again . |
| 29 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |