Example sentences of "[pron] [be] not [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE listened with great interest to those voices who do n't want the ‘ South African tour rebels ' ’ ban to be lifted , and it is clear to me that many of them are not expressing these views out of a sense of justice or respect for the millions of blacks still suffering in South Africa . |
| 2 | He looked slightly amused as he said : ‘ I am not owed any explanations , this is your house . ’ |
| 3 | If you really can not talk then you can write your replies , but I am not leaving this room until I have them . |
| 4 | And I am not suggesting that learning to relax will change a single external circumstance ; what it will change is the effect those external circumstances have on your mind and body . |
| 5 | While I am not denigrating individual interpreters working for the immigration service or the Home Office , many of whom work extremely hard and do a very good job , it is essential that those seeking political asylum have an absolute guarantee that the person doing the translating is independent , is fully aware of the importance of an asylum application , is fully familiar with the cases and is somebody whose background has been inquired into to make sure that he or she is not in a position to infiltrate the immigration service and pass information back to the regime from which the individual may be fleeing , thus putting their family at risk . |
| 6 | I am not making pedantic points when I refer to all those complexities and difficulties which are now beginning to bite in a way that I find worrying . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not making this sacrifice for nothing . ’ |
| 8 | Sorry I 'm not laying any criticism anywhere |
| 9 | ‘ Riddle had it coming to him , I 'm not wasting any tears over that bastard . ’ |
| 10 | It suddenly says hang on , I 'm not wasting enough paper , let's shove a few blanks through , fires more blanks than the T A that thing . |
| 11 | Lord Chatwin 'ere has the whiphand , an' I 'm not throwing good money after bad , that 's all I 've got to say . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not touching that car . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not leaving any mess |
| 14 | Well I 'm not digging pigging floor up ! |
| 15 | ‘ Don Howe 's got us all on this exercise programme and I 'm not breaking any records in there but my general conditioning is OK . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm not swimming this year . |
| 17 | ‘ Not now , but it will someday , and I 'm not risking this scene again . ’ |
| 18 | I 've got my own system for identification but I 'm not telling that fragolli anything . ’ |
| 19 | They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do . |
| 20 | This trait was noted by fellow politicians such as Enoch Powell : ‘ [ Ted ] believes there is an answer to all problems which can be worked out by proper bureaucratic means — I 'm not using that word abusively for once — by the proper approach . |
| 21 | I 'm not wearing any underpants and my cock falls out , already hard . |
| 22 | And another way of showing how wealthy you were was to keep up with the fashion ‘ look , I can afford to wear this year 's dress , I 'm not wearing last year 's or the year before 's ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not causing any trouble . |
| 24 | I 'm lucky enough I do n't seem to get any out , you know , the times that I 've said oh I 'm not bothering this year . |
| 25 | ‘ I assure you , I 'm not acting this time . ’ |
| 26 | Well well I shall be up er , with , I 'm , I 'm not sending these lads up on Monday . |
| 27 | That I 'm not taking undue advantage of your somewhat helpless state . |
| 28 | I 'm not taking two pairs |
| 29 | ‘ No , but I 'm not taking any chances . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not shoeing that horse . |