Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
2 | They 've bound to go for it are n't they at that age . |
3 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
4 | ‘ That is not him at all , ’ Gail Rebuck says emphatically . |
5 | ‘ It 's not you at all ! |
6 | ‘ That 's not it at all . ’ |
7 | Increasingly as I examined the implications of primate studies for ourselves and tried to see some convincing link between baboons and men a voice began muttering in the back of my head ‘ Hey — that 's not it at all . ’ |
8 | This is all very much to the good but my inner voice keeps muttering ‘ That 's not it at all ’ — because studies of this kind never attempt to cross the boundary-line between behaviour and inner experience , and thus tend to side-track the issue I am raising here . |
9 | ‘ No , that 's not it at all . |
10 | That 's not it at all . |
11 | And I shall have to look at that photograph that is n't him at all , just a soldier in uniform , sepia , like all the soldiers . |
12 | ‘ That is n't it at all . ’ |
13 | But what he was protecting was not her at all . |
14 | It was n't me at all . |
15 | I do n't know it was TI was n't it at one time . |
16 | I thought we were going to walk down the line of men , touch them on the shoulder maybe , like some cop programme on TV , but that was n't it at all . |
17 | That was n't it at all . ’ |
18 | It was n't you at all . |