Example sentences of "but he be not [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 2 | The researcher who cautiously confines his conclusions to those strictly justified by the data may be safe from criticism , but he is not making his own full potential contribution . |
| 3 | He is in the living room , but he is not going out with you . ’ |
| 4 | But he is not letting any secrets slip before the big day . |
| 5 | ‘ But he is not rushing himself . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But he 's not looking at me , ’ Anna thought . |
| 8 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 9 | Well , he 's not , but he 's not causing any difficulty just at the moment . |
| 10 | But he 's not comparing ? |
| 11 | But he 's not doing the estimates he 's been given and he ca n't afford to throw money away . |
| 12 | when I read that , you know , this is perhaps a wrong s feeling of to express but yo The lord the God created the world but he 's not meaning it in that respect is he ? |
| 13 | I like the idea of the sort of archways looking out to the right letting light sort of fall in and it , and make a nice pool of light ideal for somebody who 's standing , but he 's not standing in quite the right place . |
| 14 | ‘ But he 's not saying . ’ |
| 15 | But he 's not saying that to anyone else . |
| 16 | But he 's not saying that right , you 'd 've thought he , he 'd actually come up and say er er he would have said that for , you know , for his sake and also for the good of the Party . |
| 17 | but he 's not saying overthrow the landlords . |
| 18 | I do n't know , he 's got the key but he 's not gon na get in . |
| 19 | But he 's not gon na be in that much longer are ya ? |
| 20 | No he could , but he 's not gon na want to . |
| 21 | But he 's not going to get away with it wherever he is . |
| 22 | He says it could fill a warehouse but he 's not going to . |
| 23 | So that 's that , but he 's not going to interfere with us talking , let's carry on , at about ten o'clock Graham is coming who is , I 'm , as you know I 'm doing erm , er a teaching course , I 'm not a teacher you see , I 'm a , I 'm a nurse , he 's coming to assess me on er , this is a teaching practice for me , alright , so he will come in and I think he 'll sit over there and we 'll just get on . |
| 24 | But he 's not going to just sit there for long . |
| 25 | But he 's not going to want to . |
| 26 | This one erm he sort of tried hard and put a lot in , thinks he should get full marks but he 's not going to get very much because he 's missed this , he 's not answering that properly |
| 27 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 28 | Phil wants tea , but he 's not going to indicate it . |
| 29 | But he was not looking at her . |
| 30 | She waved to him but he was not looking in her direction . |