Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 When I am not writing I draw .
2 Oh , I wish I had a two-pound coin for every toilet I 've burst into , hissing at myself : ‘ Stoppit will you for Godsake you 're forty years old will you stoppit STOPPIT GROW UP YOU BERK I am not crying I am NOT GOING to give them the satisfaction — waaaagh ! ! ’
3 I am not saying I believe that .
4 ‘ It is always nice to beat Boris although I am not saying I have proved I am a better player , ’ said the 24-year-old Stich .
5 Well I said I 'm not leaving me bloody pan outside
6 If I 'm not teaching I 'm marking in th to actually get a lecture through cos I was given this with about a weeks ' notice you see , so I did n't have a chance to prepare the stuff for this course other than as we go along Right ?
7 Well I 'm not daunted I think , challenged I think is probably the word , but I think there is room in the market , I mean they have their Oxford English Dictionary say , which is one of their flagships you might say .
8 it was fine , I just do n't do it , I just sort of standing on I 'm not walking , I 'm not moving I ca n't .
9 I 'm not cared I 'm not a lass , I do n't have to make-up on them .
10 A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’
11 no I 'm not , I 'm sorry I said some of them are raised now for the first time , I was about to say I 'm not complaining I 'm simply pointing out , standing here without the instructions I ca n't deal with the matter
12 I 'm not complaining I 'm just saying
13 I 'm not singing I ca n't sing .
14 But that 's it , I 'm not buying I 've got a couple of boxes of chocolates we bought from Tescos did n't we ?
15 I 'm not counting me .
16 I 'm not prepared I 'm not prepared for individuals to get up but if your not if you do n't want to listen to what I 've got to say that 's okay but I do n't I 'm not prepared for people to perhaps to start making personal points about people actual work within the I certainly would n't do it I do n't think it 's it 's a question of .
17 But I 'm not seeing me kid and me husband walk to town in second-hand clothes .
18 ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message .
19 Now if I want to write something I can just turn like that and I 'm not turning me back away .
20 I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’
21 I 'm not saying I would n't have enjoyed some torrid lovemaking . ’
22 I 'm not saying I lose sleep about it , but the prospect of making a howler in front of millions of people is a worry .
23 I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open .
24 I 'm not saying I was n't robbed . ’
25 I 'm not saying I do n't like playing acoustic , mind , but it 's tough sometimes .
26 I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance .
27 I 'm not saying I did n't lift my arm and I 'm sorry for the embarrassment it has brought on the club and our supporters .
28 I 'm not saying I think he 's foolish .
29 I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’
30 But the kind of songs I really want to write — and I 'm not saying I will — are the kind The Frank & Walters and the Lemonheads write , the sort of people who have a genuine love for other people and can see past all the crap that goes on . ’
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