Example sentences of "not that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His correspondent had lately left the academic world for military service ; and with his own bookish situation , so detrimental to " independent thought " , Nietzsche contrasted and , in part , commended his friend 's active life : " … not that I applaud your present profession as such , bud only insofar as it is the negation of your previous life … |
| 32 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
| 33 | Not that I have anything against ugliness . |
| 34 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 35 | It 's not that I have anything against them per se , of course . |
| 36 | Not that I minded her coming in every day , just did n't , not always that time . |
| 37 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 38 | Not that I wanted you to be my lover . |
| 39 | Not that I expect someone like you to ’ |
| 40 | Not that I expect you to heed my warning . |
| 41 | Not that I expect you to be so baby-besotted as the people round here — with good cause , of course , as Ewan has to be a paragon ! |
| 42 | " Not that I allow anyone to read , " I said . |
| 43 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 44 | It 's not that I need them |
| 45 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 46 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 47 | He rubbed at his jaw and the back of his neck with the towel and said , ‘ I 'm not drunk , I was dog-tired , not that I owe you any explanation . |
| 48 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 49 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |