Example sentences of "[pron] [is] not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm much less aggressive , which is n't to say I do n't have a strong ego … ’
2 Which is not to say we wo n't accept sponsorship . ’
3 Which is not to say he 's a hippy soul surfer , a revivalist sporting a long Malibu board and casually riding a wave 's length as if strolling in the park .
4 ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’
5 One of which is not to open it .
6 But is it so easy to conceive of a pain which is not hurting you ?
7 I have a Goniopora coral and my Clownfish lives in it as if it were an anemone , which is not doing it a lot of good .
8 Somebody is n't telling us something .
9 Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him .
10 ‘ I know , and they 're probably all true in their way , but I 'm sure there 's something else that she 's not telling me
11 Sue might know but she 's not telling us .
12 No , she 's not telling us .
13 made at the moment , but I was erm Gemma came for tea last night and she wears glasses she 's long sighted in one eye and er , anyway I noticed she 's not wearing them as much now , so I said to her mum what 's happening ?
14 She 's not beating me up .
15 That 's like Sarah at work , I mean she leaves at twenty past five , if she thinks that , she 'll leave at ten past five I mean she thinks you 're stupid because she do n't always go but even when she 's not going she
16 She 's not to know I was supposed to catch yesterday 's plane . ’
17 She 's not having hers .
18 She 's not having it , it 's mine .
19 She 's not having it back , not at all , at all , at all .
20 She 's asked for the icing of off our cake not our cake and she 's not having it .
21 She did up to moving but she lived at Anthorpe and she 's not mentioned it since , so I 'll have to ask her if she does Avon .
22 But she 's not paying it is she ?
23 Make sure she 's not marrying you for your money . ’
24 Say you 've written her a poem or something but she 's not to read it till she gets home . ’
25 She 's just , I mean you know how people do , I mean I do n't , she 's not doing it nastily I mean she 's just naturally like that I think and erm yeah I just thought she 's bound do , yeah she could get off with someone else .
26 She 's not bothered you know .
27 I think we have to recognise Angela 's concern if er a subject area that she 's trying to present , present and she is not precluding you from doing what you 've got
28 She is not signing it , ’ he said .
29 Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’
30 But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream .
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