Example sentences of "not exactly [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , Faldo has been not exactly refusing interviews but making it abruptly and abundantly clear that he is willing to say nothing of import . |
| 2 | She moved nearer , heedless of Raynor 's warning hand on her arm , not exactly pushing him from her , but summoning , without realising , the authority and the remoteness that had come down to her ; certainly assuming the unconscious imperiousness that she had never known shone from her , and that was shining from her now in the dim , moonlit cell . |
| 3 | I am not exactly pushing a supermarket trolley but I make sure I have plenty of apples , bananas and water to keep me going . |
| 4 | I mean , it 's not exactly swimming weather , is it ? ’ |
| 5 | you 're not exactly thinking about sex . |
| 6 | Hibs , while not exactly setting the place alight , have at least the comfort of knowing that a win would lift them above St Johnstone and back into the top half of the table . |
| 7 | Not exactly impressing with all the chances which comes to you in the english league ’ frank says . |
| 8 | But the unrepentant former boxer was still in a fighting mood last night — if not exactly smelling of roses . |
| 9 | Foreign art historians were not exactly queuing up to come , although there were , of course , some notable exceptions . |
| 10 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 11 | Not exactly robbing , but not exactly being upright and honest citizens either . |
| 12 | I mean we 're not exactly trying to get people to drop in off the street , are we ? |
| 13 | The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood . |
| 14 | The most disconcerting news within the figures is that hardware sales in the quarter fell 9.9% To $7,000m — and that is in comparison with a 1991 quarter that was not exactly sparkling . |
| 15 | ‘ We are not exactly dealing in bodies , ’ said Owen . |
| 16 | She is not very enthusiastic about the light rail proposals , but er she sees the park and ride as an excellent idea , but as she said , it 's not exactly inviting to leave your car in er a car park which is not necessarily big enough , which has n't got a proper surface , is n't properly lit , is n't supervised , has great big notices up that say there are thieves about , and where the bus service stops at half past six . |
| 17 | They reached the great river at Old Melrose , at the foot of Lauderdale , and followed it down to Kelso , where they had made contact with Sir Simon Fraser , who was not exactly besieging Balliol in Roxburgh Castle but containing him there , with the Warden 's force , to prevent him joining Edward Plantagenet at Berwick . |
| 18 | Every table was full with local Battersea types who , if not exactly carousing that Tuesday night , kept up a restrained married hum above jazz filtering mauvely from the walls . |
| 19 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 20 | Willi had revealed that , since the night of Madge 's fall from grace , she actually socialized with him , accepted the occasional invitation for coffee and , whilst not exactly chatting effusively about herself or her private life , indulged in fairly normal conversation with him . |
| 21 | Mind you , even he had to admit that this ‘ new ’ guitar was really not so new — more an instrument slotted between several others , not exactly copying any of them , but owing a good deal to several . |
| 22 | News at Ten was not exactly sinking , but it was generally agreed it had lost its edge . |
| 23 | With a mouth like that , she 's not exactly going to fade into the background is she ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I can appreciate they 're not exactly going to be over the moon , but this is your life we 're talking about , not theirs . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But if this woman believes in women 's lib , then she 's not exactly doing other women any favours . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , come on , William , you 're not exactly doing gang-buster business , are you ? ’ |
| 27 | I know it is , it 's not exactly doing a lot for me either but er cos it gets raised every bloody management meeting but I think having discussed the matter we 've actually opened ourselves out a few more options than we probably thought we had |
| 28 | Beaming , she adds : ‘ I 'm not exactly having a run-of-the-mill career — but then of course , I 'm not a run-of-the-mill person , either . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , he 's not exactly travelling everyday is he ? |
| 30 | Big record companies no longer send massed talent scouts here and — judging by Terry Christian 's depressingly banal pop column in the Manchester Evening News — they are not exactly missing out on buried treasure . |