Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With his head turned his face was close to hers and he would stare right at her , maybe thinking nobody could see him in the dimness , or maybe not caring if they did . |
| 32 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 33 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |
| 34 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 35 | Your not waiting till you 've been up to London . |
| 36 | In that first heart-stopping moment when he realised that it really was her , his impulse had been to run to her , to grab her in his arms and smother her with kisses , to chide her for not waiting until he came back to make her his wife . |
| 37 | The music , although still loud , was not blaring and someone had even made sandwiches , which were being passed around along with a cider and vodka mixture . |
| 38 | My canoeing skills , newly acquired , were not tested in Canadians , helmed by a guide , and I am disappointed but as I did n't acquire my elementary skills until I was a 61 year old female I 'm not complaining but I do complain that I 'm quite unable to find a suitable canoe companion now I 'm on my own . |
| 39 | I mean , no , I 'm not kidding when you drag them from where I am , down to the scales that 's fucking hard work mate ! |
| 40 | Keith Ward of Physics , and myself , followed him around carefully noting his choices and resolutely not commenting lest we influence him . |
| 41 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 42 | Yes but er I think i it 's a combination of things , it 's the fact that you 've got your erm hand in plaster so your fingers are not moving and you lose muscle tone so quickly . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 44 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 45 | no , no I 'm not saying that we did , we did evolve |
| 46 | I 'm not saying that nothing belongs any more — like those pictures , this . ’ |
| 47 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 48 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 49 | I 'm not saying that she winds Daddy round her little finger , she does not . |
| 50 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 51 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 52 | We 're not saying that you do n't like that . |
| 53 | I 'm not saying that it achieved er a great victory |
| 54 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 55 | No but then , no but they 're not saying when you get , when you |
| 56 | they 're not saying when you get high |
| 57 | But they 're not saying if they have Bosnia in mind . |
| 58 | I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative . |
| 59 | So I take my time , not asking if he wants Cellophane gift-wrapping but just doing it really slowly and then I say I done the VAT wrong . |
| 60 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |