Example sentences of "n't [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't reacting to that ploy . |
| 2 | I ai n't goin' to let it now , either ; I ai n't goin' to be taken advantage of . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I ai n't goin' to , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'd feel daft . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'ope you ai n't goin' to be mean , ’ said Dolly . |
| 5 | ‘ I dare say I can , but I ai n't goin' to , ’ said Dolly , ‘ the blanket might fall off . ’ |
| 6 | B : I ai n't goin' to . |
| 7 | A single mother I met in Sheffield has got housing , but in a Dickensian block of flats , on the fifth floor , with no lift , a damp kitchen , bathroom and hall where the wallpaper seems to stand up only out of inertia because it is n't sticking to the walls . |
| 8 | I ai n't apologizing to you because you ai n't gon na talk to me . |
| 9 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 10 | It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd then offered to come back with her , so that she was n't returning to an empty house alone , at which point — running out of soothing phrases and patience — she 'd told him that alone was exactly what she wanted to be . |
| 12 | They ai n't keeping to their part of the contract . |
| 13 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose it is , but I was n't driving to Penzance at 11.45 on Friday night . ’ |
| 15 | At the moment we do n't Relating to the transport issue , we have n't yet a link from the northwest down through to the chunnel in to into the rest of Europe . |
| 16 | Erm but er I 'd just like to add that that , that was n't relating to Bill because he certainly did n't do that . |
| 17 | Well they said maybe they will , maybe they wo n't according to the press releases that turn up . |
| 18 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 19 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 20 | Galloping godfathers — he was n't listening to me so I started listening to myself . |
| 21 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 22 | Molly was n't listening to them . |
| 23 | But Tony is n't listening to this programme at this moment . |
| 24 | Thank god I was n't listening to Radio 5 , else I 'd probably not have any fingernails left with worry that they would n't put even one past Swindon . |
| 25 | No it 's not , I did say it 's somewhere earlier on in the Gospel , but you were n't listening to me . |
| 26 | There was quite a lot pressure and half the team were n't listening to what Ian was saying at that so |
| 27 | I did n't have much choice , I was n't listening to it anyway so then I got quite to like it then . |
| 28 | It was n't like him , it was out of character , but she was n't acting to character either . |
| 29 | er at the moment I was n't wanting to s s change any anything that , which is been happening up till now , I mean if people do want to come in here at weekends or late I do n't see any reason |
| 30 | If there is any , any time left the honourable gentleman shall have it , erm the honourable gentleman , the member for Nottingham North did say that he d was n't looking to proportional representation for these elections , I think he was absolutely right , I hope that piece of good sense which he displayed then will be one that wi he will invest his thoughts in when it comes , we come back to these questions later . |