Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 3 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 6 | I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining . |
| 7 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 8 | I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 12 | He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said . |
| 13 | ‘ Not too good , I 've heard , ’ said Greg , not adding that he had just been grilling the doctor who signed her second husband 's death certificate . |
| 14 | And went down into the kitchen , whose door she boldly opened , not caring that it had been shut to bar her out . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 16 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 17 | no , no I 'm not saying that we did , we did evolve |
| 18 | I 'm not saying that nothing belongs any more — like those pictures , this . ’ |
| 19 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 20 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying that she winds Daddy round her little finger , she does not . |
| 22 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 23 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 24 | We 're not saying that you do n't like that . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that it achieved er a great victory |
| 26 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 27 | I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative . |
| 28 | Certainly , so far as we can see , he took no steps to promote the interests of his younger son , apart from not insisting that he take the cross . |
| 29 | " Old Man River , " they sang , " he must know something … " they processed , always singing , not knowing that they sang a dirge . |
| 30 | Alida went downstairs , stooping a little , not knowing that she stooped , annoyed at the trouble a hot drink caused . |