Example sentences of "he be not [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 2 | She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him was n't going to be easy . |
| 3 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |
| 4 | He were n't sitting outside her house at all , he was sitting up here ! |
| 5 | And he were n't gon na have her back . |
| 6 | he were n't gon na miss going out tonight were he ? |
| 7 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 8 | I thought he were n't gon na bring them Sue ? |
| 9 | Well he were n't gon na have my vehicle . |
| 10 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 11 | ‘ He is not acting in the best interests of national heritage . |
| 12 | Where the contract is between a businessman and a party who is not a businessman , usually a consumer , it seems from s 1(3) ( a ) that the businessman will incur " business liability " ( and hence is caught by s 2(1) ) , while the other party can not incur " business liability " , since by definition he is not acting in the course of a business , and therefore will not be caught by the section . |
| 13 | He is not looking for people who can make decisions for him , but people through whom he can implement his decisions . |
| 14 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 15 | He is not trying to be humble , he is genuinely perplexed by the chemistry that exists between himself and other people . |
| 16 | His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience . |
| 17 | Soon the employee learns that he is not getting from the phone calls what he wants and expects . |
| 18 | Peter Scudamore still has first call on Twiston-Davies ' string when he is not riding for Martin Pipe . |
| 19 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 20 | If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery , he is not living in the real world . |
| 21 | We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent . |
| 22 | He is not compensating by making instinctive stops or commanding his area to take crosses . |
| 23 | He is not conforming to their pattern by ‘ miraculous accident ’ . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if the buyer asks for an article by its trade or brand name and does so in such a way as to exclude any discussion of its suitability , then he is not relying on the seller 's skill or judgment , Baldry v. Marshall ( 1924 C.A. ) . |
| 25 | Overeating through boredom is a greater danger , so you should monitor the patient quite carefully to make sure he is not putting on excess weight . |
| 26 | He is not talking about any one of these great writers ( his devotion to Browning was well advertised ) but about , in Eliot 's words , the ‘ pernicious or merely deadening influence ’ that ‘ a great writer can have , at a particular time ’ . |
| 27 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 28 | But , against that , the presence of Neil Edwards and Troy Coker ( if he is not suffering from jet lag ) in the line-outs should work in Quins ' favour . |
| 29 | ’ Well' , said Macmillan , ‘ he is not going to be my headmaster . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He is not going to be sacked over Christmas , and in the New Year the preparations for the Spring Budget would be disrupted by a change at the helm . |