Example sentences of "not [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not that I disapprove rural Pleasures , as the Poets have painted them ; in their Landschape every Phillis has her Coridon , every murmuring Stream , and every flowry Mead gives fresh Alarms to Love . |
| 3 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 4 | Not that I managed . |
| 5 | Not that I can remember . |
| 6 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 7 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 8 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Not that I 'm dropping hints , darling ! ’ |
| 10 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 11 | Not that I have anything against ugliness . |
| 12 | Not that I planned on dying . |
| 13 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not that I do n't want to say anything but I just do n't know what to say , ’ John Ryan , the Welsh coach , sighed . |
| 15 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 18 | ‘ Not that I can recall , sir . |
| 19 | It 's not that I do n't try — I do . |
| 20 | Not that I approve of the way some of the young people were dressed today . |
| 21 | ‘ And it 's past lunch-time , ’ Herr Nordern said , adding hastily , ‘ not that I 'm bothered , but the children , and Omi … . ’ |
| 22 | Not that I have ever believed we should meekly accept unnecessary cruelty to animals , but having an agricultural background I have wanted to avoid taking a sentimental stance . |
| 23 | Not that I could see anything when I arrived — it was covered in cloud . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 25 | Not that I was n't able to do a bit of Godmother , Fairy , problems-for-the-solving-of act this year . |
| 26 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 27 | I 'm sure I 'll never be allowed back into Russia — not that I 'd ever want to go back . |
| 28 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 29 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |
| 30 | Not that I care as I love my dandelion friend , Tony , more than I love Otley . |