Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] not [adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not just trying to extol the virtues of a well-managed filtration system , nor should I need to , but this is an actual necessity to maintain Siamese Tigers at their best . |
| 2 | But he added : ‘ I am not just trying to play now so I can force my way into the Cup final team . |
| 3 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 4 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |
| 5 | I am not merely trying to preserve the tradition of my country . |
| 6 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not just trying to make the final . |
| 8 | I 'm not just going to let you throw me away . |
| 9 | ‘ I have the premier belt and you want it — but I 'm not just going to give it to you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not even going to ask how many phone calls you made to find where I would be staying — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just like that ’ means ‘ I 'm not even going to consider doing anything differently . ’ |
| 12 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 13 | I 'm not suddenly going to start painting bowls of fruit . |
| 14 | I think it will stop them thought shit I 'm not bloody going to declare it , |
| 15 | ‘ I 've decided I 'm not always going to follow you from now on . ’ |
| 16 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
| 17 | But you 're not just going to get away with it , this time . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean you 're not even going to give your mother the chance to decide for herself ? ’ |
| 19 | And now you 're not even going to get the chance to stay overnight . ’ |
| 20 | Now I do ask myself this this question erm I can recognise the argument that if you if you 're not actually going to achieve your objectives you have to change your mind . |
| 21 | It 's like yo you 're you 're not really trying to cover it up now ! |
| 22 | Are they approval seeking , supportive or a put down ( as in ‘ you 're not really going to wear that , are you ? |
| 23 | Thérèse you ca n't mean it , you 're not really going to go and be a nun ? |
| 24 | ‘ You 're not really going to resign ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not still trying to accuse her of something underhand , are you ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 're not seriously going to tell me that a relationship like that just ends , when the guy still meets your mother every few weeks or so ? ’ |
| 27 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 28 | We are not only looking to cost control to help us . |
| 29 | It means that we are not only working to enable children to have access to information , knowledge , and literature ( with or without a capital letter ) but that we are also helping them to develop critical and independent thinking . |
| 30 | Here we are not only going to give you technical details , but also try and tell you what it means to us as a Community . |