Example sentences of "not [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I 've seen anyone . |
| 2 | One wrote that and then said , ‘ It 's not that I 've got anything against my husband , it 's just he 's pig ignorant . ’ ’ |
| 3 | Not that I 've got anything against them personally . |
| 4 | Not that I 've got anything against Sue 's family , mind . |
| 5 | Not that I 've got anything against babies . |
| 6 | Not that I 've got anything at all against them getting out and about a bit now , ’ he added hurriedly , not wanting another Grimma on his hands . |
| 7 | Not that I mean to make her sound like some latter-day Anne Frank , of course . ’ |
| 8 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 10 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
| 11 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 12 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 13 | not that I enjoy teaching my |
| 14 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
| 15 | Not that I plan to give you time to forget . ’ |
| 16 | Not that I needed to coach her , she must have had plenty of practice . |
| 17 | Not if I 've got it set . |
| 18 | My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’ |
| 19 | Not if I have to drag her through every court in the land … |
| 20 | I nearly brought you down and treat , and I thought I 'd better not until I 've asked your mum . |
| 21 | Not until I 've seen what 's there and taken your father 's advice on what to do about it . ’ |
| 22 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |
| 23 | not till I 've heard it . |
| 24 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 25 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 26 | That I 've done what I 've done because it seemed to me right , not because I wanted to spite him . ’ |
| 27 | I voted Tory not because I want to earn lots of money ( I am on the dole ) , but precisely because I object to the facile cynicism as witnessed above . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Not after I 've seen him anyway . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But the truth is , there was never anything between us — not after I 'd discovered she cared more for her mirror than for anything or anyone else . ’ |