Example sentences of "he [be] not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |
| 2 | He is not engaged in some new and unnatural vice . |
| 3 | If Grom is slain he may still try to regenerate wounds suffered , and if successful he is not killed after all . |
| 4 | In considering the development of a conscience in the newborn child , the first thing is to acknowledge that , as far as is known , he is not born with any such facility . |
| 5 | In fact , at common law , it is better for the seller if he is not fixed with actual knowledge of such contracts , since he is then more likely to escape liability for consequential loss suffered by the buyer if the seller 's default prevents the buyer from fulfilling his obligations under those contracts . |
| 6 | Overeating through boredom is a greater danger , so you should monitor the patient quite carefully to make sure he is not putting on excess weight . |
| 7 | He is not talking about any one of these great writers ( his devotion to Browning was well advertised ) but about , in Eliot 's words , the ‘ pernicious or merely deadening influence ’ that ‘ a great writer can have , at a particular time ’ . |
| 8 | He is n't used to this , you know . ’ |
| 9 | But he says he is n't hurt by gay slurs . |
| 10 | He 's had plenty of dealing with your sort — he 's not fooled for one minute and neither am I ! ’ |
| 11 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 12 | He 's being ruled from London , and he 's not used to that . |
| 13 | At least he 's not lying about one thing . |
| 14 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 15 | No he 's not saying that , he 's not going that far because he 's not talking about all religions . |
| 16 | ‘ As long as he 's not fixing for another of his boys to play around with this alternative route through the mountains , ’ I said . |
| 17 | If he 's not paying till next week , next |
| 18 | He 's the kind of musician he admires because he 's not confined to one kind of music and is willing to extend people 's perception of that music and that 's what he 'd like to do . |
| 19 | When the wardrobes are moved it could be that they will hide the wall light switch and he 's not bothered about that one little bit ! |
| 20 | Hope he 's not going for any drinking . |
| 21 | Hope he 's not coming for three weeks |
| 22 | He was n't thinking at all , just breathing . |
| 23 | But er oh he was n't liked at all . |
| 24 | But , given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies , maybe he was n't joking at all . |
| 25 | She 'd wept and said he was n't to talk like that . |
| 26 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 27 | He was n't reacting to that ploy . |
| 28 | He was n't helping at all . |
| 29 | He was n't used to all this political discussion . |
| 30 | And he made it clear that he was n't talking about regular reallocation of senior positions in the Church . |