Example sentences of "but [pron] be not [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | No , I am sorry but I am not taking it until after the statement . |
| 2 | If you really can not talk then you can write your replies , but I am not leaving this room until I have them . |
| 3 | Just a natural , competitive sense of frustration not to have won full honours , but I am not complaining . |
| 4 | ‘ But I am not looking like Hindu . ’ |
| 5 | Profix are a little more expensive but I am not having to take such huge quantities at once so I can save on my storage costs . |
| 6 | ‘ But I am not coming back crash , bang wallop . |
| 7 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 8 | But I am not talking of architecture . ’ |
| 9 | But I am not talking about God . |
| 10 | Dozzell says : ‘ Ipswich is a great club , but I am not rushing into anything . |
| 11 | The inclusion of the notion of subjectivity in the above definition might seem surprising here , but I am not equating deixis with a concept that stands in rough opposition to objectivity . |
| 12 | It is very unfortunate because we want all our best players for such an important match , but I am not going to embroider it . |
| 13 | A virtue which , I realize , makes me too vulnerable , but I am not going to discard it now . |
| 14 | I hope so , but I am not going to argue the case one way or the other , nor to speculate over its possible memic evolution . |
| 15 | ‘ Obviously they have very long memories but I am not going to get involved in any more comments , ’ added the former Gloucester , Worcester and England batsman and BBC commentator . |
| 16 | ‘ They do n't like my moustache and my long hair , they get at me whenever they can but I am not going to change . |
| 17 | But I am not going to go overboard — I expect us to beat them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I may be a villain , but I am not going to sit by and let an innocent man do a ten-year stretch for something I 've done . ’ |
| 19 | I am glad we have converted the European Community to this , but I am not going to have land set aside in Britain so that the rest of Europe can produce more . |
| 20 | ‘ I could tell them where to look for the escaped prisoner , but I am not going to help them . |
| 21 | " But I am not going to get into that happy position , am I ? " |
| 22 | I said I do n't mind this doing statement , I said , but I am not going to court ! |
| 23 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |
| 24 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 25 | It was hectic , but I was not complaining . ’ |
| 26 | But I was not watching the couple . |
| 27 | My life was being timed but I was not contributing . |
| 28 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 29 | But I was not going to submit to the suffering of being preserved in a past that was not my own . |
| 30 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |