Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [that] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try . |
| 2 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 3 | I am not suggesting that you should collapse in a soggy heap if you bang your head or shut your finger in the door ; but suppressing tears when you are really unhappy is suppressing the grief itself and this can be harmful in several ways : |
| 4 | I am not suggesting that you can never have another cup of coffee or tea but that here , as in many other areas of life , moderation is the best policy . |
| 5 | I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining . |
| 6 | I am not suggesting that you should be totally selfish , but people will put on those who ca n't say ‘ no ’ when they need a helping hand . |
| 7 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |
| 8 | ‘ My dear Constance , I am not suggesting that you should no longer visit me . |
| 9 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 10 | I 'm not suggesting that you need to go quite this mad , but one , or perhaps two extra masts do make life so simple and easy . |
| 11 | When you come to retirement age , whilst not suggesting that you are past it , you are planning ahead for the time where you may not be quite as capable as were . |
| 12 | I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not suggesting that you are . |
| 14 | It 's you making the decisions and doing the work and although I am not suggesting that you will catch twice as many pike , you will certainly catch some which a fast surface retrieve would have missed . |
| 15 | I 'm not suggesting that you , you 're right , I do n't think you should speak to but I ca n't see that that 's well maybe they 're more efficient now they bloody well ought to be , there 's twice as many people in there . |
| 16 | I 'm not saying that you should make it their responsibility to do these things , but we should offer them the opportunity . ’ |
| 17 | It 's , it 's , it 's very desperate and I 'm not saying that you would do it back because of that , but it may just be the thing that influences you to buy a particular brand , particularly the things which are heavily erm which have many alternatives to buy . |
| 18 | We 're not saying that you do n't like that . |
| 19 | And I mean , obviously I 'm not saying that you ought to buy it anywhere else |
| 20 | I 'm not , I 'm not saying that you should have any |
| 21 | So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on your Unix or open systems machines with your database on it on Monday . |
| 22 | So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on open systems on Monday . |
| 23 | you 're not feeling that you 've got lots of little isolated subjects and lots of little isolated topics and it 's all building up and it 's all a lot it is a lot , |
| 24 | Well , well not smashing that you lost two , right . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't implying that you were , ’ said Robyn , flushing . |