Example sentences of "i 'm not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
| 2 | I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try . |
| 3 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |
| 4 | I 'm not suggesting that we should n't care about these little games and trifling details of life , for God wants us to practise on them in this world ; but I would like to see us not so strained and frantic in our concern about them . |
| 5 | I 'm not suggesting that legislators woke up one morning and said : ‘ We must abolish slavery ! ’ or ‘ Bear baiting must cease ! ’ , but for the position to have changed from tacit acceptance to wholesale condemnation , there must have been a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction . |
| 6 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 7 | I 'm not suggesting that you need to go quite this mad , but one , or perhaps two extra masts do make life so simple and easy . |
| 8 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 9 | I 'm not suggesting that your baby would n't be happy or well cared for , simply that he or she needs a mother who 's secure and happy with herself . |
| 10 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not suggesting that you are . |
| 12 | I 'm not suggesting that you , you 're right , I do n't think you should speak to but I ca n't see that that 's well maybe they 're more efficient now they bloody well ought to be , there 's twice as many people in there . |
| 13 | I 'm not suggesting that Paul Rideout , Tony Cottee , Maurice Johnston and Stuart Barlow are all bad players , but they do not give Everton that extra option someone like - dare I say it again - Graeme Sharp would offer . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure that honesty 's a word which I would er do n't get me wrong , I 'm not suggesting that a salesman 's dishonest , do n't think that . |
| 15 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 16 | Oh , I 'm not suggesting that these groups , if they come together and mix will cause problems , I 'm suggesting that if there is only one kind of person that 's attracted to a particular site and that type of person happens to be socially irresponsible , then then you 're it 's a recipe for disaster , is n't it ? |
| 17 | Okay bu yes now I 'm not arguing that for some depressed people it 's there 's always side effects of some kind , okay , Peter , I wanted to ask you a very personal question . |
| 18 | I 'm not arguing that we should put more vehicles round the North Eastern side , I 'm just thinking that this traffic use reflects the , the imbalance in the region . |
| 19 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 20 | Obviously I 'm not saying that political issues should not be debated . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying that trendy clothes make a better person , possibly the reverse is true , but it 's the whole spectrum of youth culture . |
| 22 | I 'm not saying that women and girls are bad . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 24 | I 'm not saying that you should make it their responsibility to do these things , but we should offer them the opportunity . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that I wo n't win World and Olympic titles , just that , at this time , I can not conceive of myself achieving that time . |
| 26 | Oh , I think it is , and I 'm not saying that everybody should be slim , in a size 6 or 8 . |
| 27 | I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not saying that I shall live here , ’ Peter said . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying that we are getting there , it 's going to take time . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not saying that women ca n't raise sons on their own , I 'm saying that it 's difficult for a woman to teach , and very near impossible , in my mind , for a woman to teach a young boy how to be a man . |