Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I got him every time , until the end and I said I am not serving him this time !
2 You 're not telling me this Council driver ca n't go any quicker cos he 'll try to get back to before , before twelve o'clock
3 And they 're not charging us this time you will notice .
4 ‘ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time , ’ he said .
5 With the possible exception of Mrs Major , who has to struggle not to look cheerful at the mention of leaving 10 Downing Street , and Sir Denis Thatcher ( ’ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time ’ ) , every good political consort must learn how to be a good loser .
6 So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ?
7 but they 're not giving us any money , they c they wo n't take anything off you .
8 ‘ They 're not giving you any trouble ? ’
9 ‘ I 'm not fetching you any tobacco , ’ Whitlock cut in quickly .
10 Right now , you 're probably making guesses of your own and , listen , I 'm not giving you any help with those .
11 ‘ I 'm not giving you any money , Miss Jakob .
12 I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it .
13 but I 'm not doing it that way , cos you have to join it at the back
14 So he says oh I said I were n't taking you this week .
15 he 's not caused us any hassle at all , er he 's been very helpful
16 He 's not bringing me any supper .
17 ‘ It 's not done him any good , ’ said Big Nan , ‘ running away like that . ’
18 ‘ Men are aggressive'– ‘ He 's not giving you enough space ’ , ‘ The problem is money ’ , ‘ I know exactly how you feel ’ , ‘ It 'll never happen . ’
19 They 're all saying , it 's not doing me any good .
20 it 's lovely but it 's not doing us any good this
21 It 's not doing you any good .
22 and he ha he has n't been trained up fully yet so he , you know but plus , the course he 's on at er college is n't doing him any good .
23 Goodnight says Steve Jobs had promised him that the NeXT boxes would sell in serious numbers , but now admits that that particular offering ‘ is n't making us any money . ’
24 I was told by their breeder that I was n't giving them enough protein .
25 Sally tried to persuade him to stop but he said it was n't doing him any harm , even though he looked pale and drawn .
26 it was n't doing me any good because it was
27 ‘ Gloria was n't doing you any good . ’
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