Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [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 . ’ |