Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he spoke there were others who were not enjoying themselves quite so much , for the wind had got up and men were finding out what the soft spring this year had done to nurture growth in the grass lurking on either side of the fairways . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm leaving now , and I 'm not touching you again tonight , because the next time I touch you I 'll go on touching you . |
| 3 | " Then why are you not eating it more enthusiastically ? " |
| 4 | Cheney declared himself " stunned , angry and frustrated " by his involvement in the scandal and , like many other offenders , blamed dubious administrative practices by the bank for not keeping a more accurate record of the state of his account and for not keeping him more closely informed of his financial position . |
| 5 | will volunteer if they 're not keeping anyone else away from things . |
| 6 | Sorry , I 'm not explaining myself very well , am I ? ’ |
| 7 | I am not expressing myself very well . ’ |
| 8 | It 's not pulling it out just out of thin air |
| 9 | Now if I want to write something I can just turn like that and I 'm not turning me back away . |
| 10 | We 're not doin' it no more . ’ |
| 11 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 12 | She goes you 're not calling her up again . |
| 13 | Butler was , perhaps , not saying anything so very different when he observed that ‘ equal educational opportunity is not identical educational opportunity ’ . |
| 14 | Alright then , if you 're not doing nothing right alright then laters , pucker . |
| 15 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 16 | Some of it 's quite funny , Keifer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips are good but the film as a whole seems to wander round making a rather large amount of noise and not doing anything all that interesting . |
| 17 | Some of it 's quite funny , Keifer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips are good but the film as a whole seems to wander round making a rather large amount of noise and not doing anything all that interesting . |
| 18 | This time I 'm not letting you off so lightly — which is what I was actually doing when I had you dismissed from that other one , ’ he stated outrageously . |
| 19 | Their excuse for not letting us out more often was that there was n't enough staff . |
| 20 | Not taking one out however ( as with Edwin Armstrong , the American who discovered FM radio ) may bring the inventor nothing but misery . ’ |
| 21 | Humour Are you getting fun out of life and not taking yourself too seriously ? |
| 22 | I 'm not taking you up there to vomit in the Land Rover . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you know you are always moaning about me not taking you out enough . ’ |
| 24 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 25 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 26 | ‘ So many people come to our clinic complaining that they have greasy hair , when they are simply not washing it frequently enough , ’ says trichologist Glenn Lyons . |
| 27 | I 'm not putting them up though ! |
| 28 | He commented on the smell of petrol that came from them and made an elaborate joke of not putting them too close to the flames . |
| 29 | Sorry , I 'm not putting it very well . |
| 30 | It is not putting it too strongly to say that marriage is in crisis not only in the UK , but throughout the Western world . |