Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I decided against it , not entirely sure that I 'd like the answer . |
| 2 | Now I 'm not entirely positive if I 'm right but I think that would be easier to do because you could then alter that round to and then you 'd have your three X as a separate thing . |
| 3 | Ah well you do it Charlotte you 've got to match the letters up , not much good if I 've got to stop to keep helping you is it ? |
| 4 | ‘ They are not so appealing that I relish the idea of seeing them again , ’ Murtach retorted . |
| 5 | I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention . |
| 6 | I know it 's a lot to ask , but I 'm not so black as I once was , you know . |
| 7 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 8 | ‘ Cup rugby would also have appealed to me , but I 'm not so sure that I would have been so enthusiastic about playing in a league , ’ Cranmer says . |
| 9 | " You know , Dad , I 'm not so sure that I 'm cut out for what you want me to be , " he said , and sipped his coffee with a pensive expression on his face . |
| 10 | The two colours do n't go too badly together but er I 'm not so sure that I would really want that hanging on the wall , I , it does n't really appeal to me very much . |
| 11 | " I am not so sure whether I can handle the fame of being the last project leader of the old St. Joe 's ! " |
| 12 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 13 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 14 | Even after all these years my English is not so good and I like still honeycake better than your heavy Christmas pudding ! ’ |
| 15 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 16 | I am not so thick-brained that I did n't get the memo . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said . |
| 18 | However , I hope I am not so complacent that I am unable to acknowledge the difficulties of trying to bring about change . |
| 19 | Smiles from that quarter are not so plentiful that I can afford to disregard them , but I was n't in the mood to appreciate one right at that moment . |
| 20 | I thought the Sex stuff was a bit weird but not so weird that I did n't want to get involved with it . |
| 21 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 22 | ‘ Let's just say there 's one man I do n't trust , but I 'm not so bigoted that I 'm a man-hater . ’ |
| 23 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not so green that I do n't know what a man means when he invites a woman back to his flat after midnight . ’ |
| 25 | I would like to be away from here , I am not too old for new surroundings , not so old that I feel dread and insecurity in the prospect of a change . |
| 26 | Well , that last statement is not exactly true as I agree with the sentiments of those who have argued that the Exile clubs should not be in the Courage Leagues , which are meant to be for English players . |
| 27 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 28 | And this was not only Walsall Co-op , it was the Co-ops as far as I can remember , because er er you know I would n't take that for gospel could I 'm not not sure because I was only child . |
| 29 | We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man . |
| 30 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |