Example sentences of "be not [conj] i [verb] " 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 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 4 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 5 | No , I 'm not cos I think it 's quite a valid |
| 6 | Well I , I 'm not , I 'm not like I said , I just want |
| 7 | Yeah I do n't know , I 'm not and I 've |
| 8 | I 'm not and I tell you honest it 's , it is frightening me a bit . |
| 9 | I 'm not and I bought last night ! |
| 10 | I 'm not if I 've still got this cold . |
| 11 | Who can dispute the fact that , if the figures were not as I have just announced and if industrial relations had not improved , we could not have attracted our record level of inward investment from across the world ? |
| 12 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 15 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 16 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 17 | It is not that I have no reason to submit to the moral law and can do as I please ; I am left with no reason even to do as I please . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 19 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 20 | This is not because I take them for granted — On the contrary I marvel every year at the miracle of that never-empty basket in The Undercroft and the crowds round the stalls . |
| 21 | As Wittgenstein observed : ‘ If however I doubt whether a spider feels pain , it is not because I do n't know what to expect ’ ( Z 564 ) . |
| 22 | This is not because I share his criticisms — quite the opposite — but because , like him , I anticipate and relish the prospect of my hon. Friend the Minister replying to the debate , when I hope that he will give a robust rebuttal of the hon. Gentleman 's criticisms . |
| 23 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 24 | ‘ Question is not if I shoot someone , but when I shoot someone , ’ says John . |
| 25 | For example , I might decide the angle of light on my desk is not as I require it on the basis of assessing the illumination and the lamp which is the source of it . |
| 26 | Well it 's not that I mean there 's a |
| 27 | Well it 's , it 's not that I mean I 'm just trying to see |
| 28 | It 's not that I get reasonably excited it 'll be okay . |
| 29 | It 's not that I begrudge you your father 's royalties . |
| 30 | 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 . |