Example sentences of "[pron] 's not [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's not that I think she 'll know how upset she is . |
| 2 | But she 's not if it 's coming natural . |
| 3 | Well I think , I 've got ta say that I think it might be ha it might be working better now with there but when not there and we go to and say can you tell me where X Y Z is , the response you 're gon na get is I 'm sorry I do n't know and the reason she wo n't know is that she 's never bothered to ask because she 's not talking so it 's okay while there but it wo n't be when she 's not because I 've had that , sorry I do n't know . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 5 | One or two shapes moved through the darkness but most people — There 's not that many , Chesarynth realized . |
| 6 | I tell you what I was quite disappointed as that , there was no , did n't seem to be a couple of stair up in the box office either the Lyceum I could see or there 's not that there 's |
| 7 | so you can go to them and ask them for advice and they ca n't give it , because there 's not that link back to where you know |
| 8 | It 's not whether old trainers are fashionable or not ( many of the old school trainers were crap ) . |
| 9 | Th th th well i it 's not , it 's not whether or not |
| 10 | It 's not whether you 're black or white , it 's not whether you 're pink or green , it 's how you respond to orders . |
| 11 | It 's not whether you 're black or white , it 's not whether you 're pink or green , it 's how you respond to orders . |
| 12 | Well it does really , I mean if we , it 's a question of whether the budget will stand the staff , is n't it , it 's not whether we , er I mean in terms of of redundancies it 's whether we cou , if we appointed people we could afford to keep them on , whether or not there was work , I mean we could have create work in some senses . |
| 13 | Yeah , it 's not whether you win or lose , it 's how you play the game . |
| 14 | It 's not whether , a , whether I 've all my little itty-bitty prayers answered . |
| 15 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 18 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | It 's not that Malcolm was a father-figure to us — as some have said — he was more like an elder brother who 'd actually been out there in the world and done it so he had the confidence and experience . |
| 21 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 22 | It 's not that I do n't try — I do . |
| 23 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 24 | ‘ To a farmer it 's an anathema not to produce on his land and therefore it 's not that he is not being responsible in meeting the challenges . ’ |
| 25 | It 's not that she 's said , ‘ No , you must n't wear make-up ’ , but all my friends do , and sometimes I feel strange because I have n't got any . |
| 26 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 27 | It 's not that I 'm particularly unhappy with the shape of my body or with my image , it 's just that I worry all the time about what people think about me , what impression they are getting . |
| 28 | It 's not that I am fearful of telling the truth , but the reader might be offended . |
| 29 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 30 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |