Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 " And how can I be sure you are not telling me a little mentirola ?
2 ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’
3 ‘ You are not giving us a chance .
4 I you see you 're not exceeding what the government is establishing as your target level , you 're falling short of that , and that means that some people will not get services that they would get if you had gone up to the level .
5 ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre .
6 Erm you 're fairly Are you 're fairly confident that they 're not telling us a porky about this ?
7 They 're not doing what the workers want .
8 ‘ Lucenzo … you 're not leading me a dance , are you ? ’ she asked , lifting her unhappy face to his .
9 ‘ Because you 're not giving yourself a chance to test your own feelings — or to learn whether or not she has changed .
10 ‘ You 're not giving yourself a chance to test your own feelings ’ , she had advised .
11 Now they 're not giving us the time to make .
12 And they 've just said , and and they 've said no they 're not giving you a reason or
13 I 'm not buying her a present , I mean I 'll chip in with a present for you for her and Mark if it comes , but we 'll have to go to , but erm , you know , she , .
14 Not , I 'm not buying you no more then !
15 No , I 'm not calling you a
16 I 'm not eating them every day though .
17 But for her he 'd be a stiff this very minute , and I 'm not telling you no lies !
18 He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said .
19 ‘ I 'm not giving you a divorce so you need n't think I am . ’
20 I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it .
21 I 'm not giving you a lift downstairs , come off it
22 I 'm not giving you no money .
23 ‘ I 'm not doing you a favour , ’ Claudia snapped .
24 Cos Irene says give me a ring I says no , I says that 's it , I said I 've already made the arrangement once and it backfired I says so I 'm not doing it no more .
25 The young people we surveyed felt completely let down by teachers and parents who are n't giving them the facts of life .
26 But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story .
27 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 .
28 ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it .
29 Come on this mental intrigue it is n't doing you no good !
30 Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be .
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