Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 2 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
| 3 | Not that I plan to give you time to forget . ’ |
| 4 | Not that I needed to coach her , she must have had plenty of practice . |
| 5 | My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’ |
| 6 | Not if I have to drag her through every court in the land … |
| 7 | That I 've done what I 've done because it seemed to me right , not because I wanted to spite him . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 9 | ca n't cos I have to take it out and |