Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’
2 We are not told who the petitioner is .
3 I you see you 're not exceeding what the government is establishing as your target level , you 're falling short of that , and that means that some people will not get services that they would get if you had gone up to the level .
4 ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre .
5 Now they 're not giving us the time to make .
6 But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected .
7 Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat .
8 No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do .
9 ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it .
10 Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed .
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