Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't have been the script , which tried unconvincingly to suggest multiple reconciliation under the spell of the Castello Brown ( the castle 's real-life name , believe me or not ) and then petered out , as if the adaptor had given up and left the cast to improvise . |
| 2 | ‘ And if I broke a leg I 'd have done it whether you were with me or not . |
| 3 | Well , tell them I 'll be back whether the King wants me or not , We said we 'd take this damned city , and we 're going to . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want to see me or not ? ’ she snapped . |
| 5 | Whether the men used me or not , I now have a better understanding of relationships and what I want from them . |
| 6 | FRANKLY , I DO N'T CARE IF YOU BUY ME OR NOT |
| 7 | Yeah do you agree with me or not . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to apologize to me or not ? ’ |
| 9 | I do n't know whether he listened to me or not . |
| 10 | I did not know if he was going to attack me or not , but I hit him hard with the side of my sword . |
| 11 | And the other patients did n't know whether to speak to me or not . |
| 12 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 13 | I therefore reminded him that the Emperor had authorized my journey , and told him that whether his soldiers came with me or not I was leaving that afternoon . |
| 14 | I did not argue ; it did not really matter if he believed me or not . |
| 15 | A doubtful smile in her eyes , she reproved softly , ‘ I never know if you 're teasing me or not . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't give a tinker 's damn if you believe me or not . |
| 17 | I was n't sure if they were talking to me or not . |
| 18 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 19 | Rule three … ’ he paused ‘ … make up your mind whether you want me or not . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you want me or not ? ’ |
| 21 | Whether you choose to come with me or not , I 'm leaving Parfois to-night . |
| 22 | Whether its going to influence me or not |
| 23 | Well actually I 'd , I would know how to do it , but whether I 'd have the tools on me or not , just jack it up on one of them thingies |
| 24 | Are you gon na play soldiers with me or not ? |
| 25 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 26 | One receives the strong impression that Tolkien would have continued to write his gnominsh grammars , his elvish etymologies , his histories of mythological lost ages , his wanted to read them or not . |
| 27 | ‘ Albeit that they 're very good guidelines , at the end of the day it 's still up to individual to decide whether they adhere to them or not , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Everybody had personal assistants whether they needed them or not . |
| 29 | When people must pay for services , regardless of whether they use them or not , they are paying a tax , period . |
| 30 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |