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 . |