Example sentences of "i [be] not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
| 2 | But , for all the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with whose speech I entirely agree , I am not placed in that invidious situation . |
| 3 | This was definitely the case with me and , even now , I occasionally have one or two lessons to make sure I am not getting into bad habits . |
| 4 | In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past . |
| 5 | ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again . |
| 6 | I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa . |
| 7 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |
| 8 | ‘ But I am not looking like Hindu . ’ |
| 9 | But if I am not misled by this convention , it will in my own case be sufficient grounds for choice that it is the impulse to abstain which prevails when I am fully aware of the danger . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 11 | Fortunately I am not driven to this expedient that often , because I have many other stratagems that I have devised for attaining the same object . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not acquainted with any young lady of that name . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 14 | I am not going through that again ? ’ |
| 15 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 16 | Conservative Members would be well advised to heed those words because all the contact that I have had with local government — I am not talking about Labour councillors , but about impartial experts — has shown that those experts believe that the council tax will eventually run into such trouble that it will become unworkable . |
| 17 | While stocks in the form of raw materials last — I am not talking about nuclear weapons but general armaments — the production will clearly continue . |
| 18 | I am not talking of secondary schools , although there are some very small secondary schools in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | I am not talking of municipal autonomy — they almost have that — but of self-rule as is written and spelled out in the Camp David accords " . |
| 20 | I am not persuaded by either of these arguments . ’ |
| 21 | I am not arguing for shoddy commercials . |
| 22 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd best warn you , I 'm not staying in this hospital . |
| 24 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 25 | gon na ring then cos I 'm , I 'm not staying like this . |
| 26 | And if we did spent twelve hundred pounds on an aeroplane and came back with fifty million pounds worth of grants , I 'm not apologising for that . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh no , ’ said Jane , ‘ I 'm not connected at all . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not connected with that . |
| 29 | This train does n't stop until it reaches London now , and I 'm not moving from this seat . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not listening to any more of this , ’ and she closed the window and climbed back into bed . |