Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 2 | Well it is possible , it is possible because erm you know we 're not necessarily dealing with anything that 's horrendously difficult this year erm |
| 3 | Is it possible for some of us and perhaps representative 's of organisations or a group of us and I know I can talk to the board but I 'm not necessarily speaking for anybody else if I natter to you other than myself . |
| 4 | Forty-three per cent are fathers ( not necessarily living with their children ) , and 52% currently live in households which do not include children . |
| 5 | As to discrimination , we are not necessarily talking about someone being fired , sacked , or NRB 'd . |
| 6 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 7 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 8 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 9 | And Flupper was not merely heading for them , he was in among them ! |
| 10 | Anyway I says to Alice it 's not fair getting in somebody 's car feeling the way I feel I says and puking in car . |
| 11 | And Hodkinson added : ‘ After beating a fighter as good as Mexico 's Marcos Villasana to win the title , I 'm not exactly shaking in my shoes about facing Benichou . ’ |
| 12 | Oh no I worked for another one but her name 's not Liz it 's Alison , but I do n't like working for her and that 's why I 've stopped , I said to Sandra I 'm not fucking scrubbing for somebody younger than me . |
| 13 | Like , erm , I 'm , like I 'm not fucking saying to she 's , she 's but she 's , she just gets fucking absolutely stupid ! |
| 14 | Problems vary , not just according to what they are about , but also according to : |
| 15 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 16 | ‘ We do all sorts of different jobs , not just looking after them . |
| 17 | The woman was not just getting on her nerves now . |
| 18 | Fighting inside the ring , I 'm not just thinking about myself . |
| 19 | Officially , I mean , not just bumping into him in the Lords ’ bar . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Not just waiting on me , McAllister , ’ he answered — he seemed to have an answer for everything , she thought . |
| 21 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
| 22 | ‘ You ought to do something that 'll bring some proper money in , ’ she told him , ‘ and take that stuff out the back where I 'm not forever tripping over it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not still dwelling on our conversation on the beach , are you ? ’ he asked with a hint of impatience . |
| 24 | She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself . |
| 25 | Between meals snacks were forbidden , and the dining room table was arranged so that Suzy 's parents were not directly looking at her . |
| 26 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 27 | Mitch , of course , was not now speaking to her . |
| 28 | Maggie was thankful that her heart had settled down a bit and was not now hammering in her chest like a wild bird . |
| 29 | Cos you 're not really thinking about who it might be ! |
| 30 | ‘ We all need to feel safe , ’ he said , not really thinking about it , thinking about Emily . |