Example sentences of "[that] he [is] not " in BNC.

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1 If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid that he 's not here , Frau , ’ the Sergeant said in a blank , bureaucratic voice .
3 That he 's not really there ? ’
4 What I like about Mark is that he 's not afraid to be funny with the crowd .
5 ‘ If you come out and tell a person to his face that he 's not selected and why , ’ I said , ‘ well , it might hurt but at least you know . ’
6 Cutty Ranks ' ‘ Who Say Me Done ’ is Cutty providing once and for all that he 's not just a one-year wonder , with that perfect voice ruling a wild ragga tune laden with samples from a certain 1969 reggae classic .
7 ‘ They do n't understand that he 's not difficult , he 's just very honest and not afraid to say , ‘ No , that is wrong ’ .
8 ‘ Why does a woman work 10 years to change a man 's habits and then complain that he 's not the man she married ? ’
9 You get the impression that he 's not exactly stupid , he 's just marching to a different drum .
10 Morrissey stood out from the bill in that he 's not yobbish .
11 It does n't matter that he 's not like them .
12 He also wants to make it clear that he 's not ‘ a Unix-on-the-desktop basher .
13 C. complains that he 's not as helpful or responsive as some of the other people he has to deal with in other factories .
14 Every time he buys me something I think it is proof that he 's not going to kill me or do anything else unpleasant .
15 Then Paula died , and Sam disappeared , and I ca n't find him on Belial , and I ca n't find him on Moloch , and part of me is frightened that he might be dead , and part of me is frightened that he 's not . ’
16 Someone should tell him that he 's not the only one with a murder on his hands . "
17 ‘ It does n't matter that he 's not perbene by birth .
18 You could not , no , a miner once he 's been a miner , can not go down er a pit and say to anyone down a pit , and say to anyone down a pit , that he 's not a miner .
19 Whereas Luke 's made it absolutely clear that he 's not interested in anything permanent . ’
20 But just show Mr Laing that he 's not the only one that can Strathclyde water engaged Sir William , in , not exactly a name that friendly with labour councils or trade unionists , to undertake a brief external overview of its strat strategy procedure in capital expenditure programme at a meeting on the twenty third of March .
21 So Ernie will be very pleased to know that he 's not required to er , star this morning .
22 Not that he 's not tough , oh no , it 'd be a mistake to underestimate how vicious the little sod can be . ’
23 And I 've also found out that he 's not interested in fishing
24 Now the Home Office has said , the Home Secretary rather , has said this year that he 's not granting any more policemen this year , but he also said that if county councils wished to fund more policemen , he would certainly look at that .
25 ‘ And if you explain to Thomas that he 's not to touch things like that , but must come and tell you when he finds one , then he 'll avoid any danger in future . ’
26 It seems there could n't be anyone better qualified to ride motorbikes than Simon Wigg … the only problem is that he 's not qualified … he 's never passed his motorcycle test .
27 Although the cause of the fire is n't yet known , one of the men who owns the farm says that he 's not ruling out an arson attack .
28 The fact that he 's not pin-up material like Bolton and does not quite have the same vocal dexterity as either Bolton or Richie probably has a significant bearing on his lack of success in Europe .
29 Written out of both , he insists that he 's not ready to be written off in Sheffield Brightside where blind Labour candidate David Blunkett protects a 24,191 majority over the Conservatives .
30 We do n't know if Fred Day 's claim is true ; we do know that he 's not alone in believing it to be .
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