Example sentences of "[pers pn] not [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have I not more humanity than they trapped inside me ? |
| 2 | Even better is the final presentation of the promised land ( Deuteronomy 9:6 ) like a cross father grudgingly handing the Christmas presents to his undeserving children : ‘ Understand therefore , that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness ; for thou art a stiffnecked people . ’ |
| 3 | Tells me not many |
| 4 | Envy me not this immortal draught , and I will forgive thee all thy persecutions . |
| 5 | Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . |
| 6 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
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| 8 | I would n't run after you not this time |
| 9 | Are you not a friend of Roy Dunlop 's and were we not all together once in Vancouver ? ’ |
| 10 | Do we not all accept ‘ progress ’ , ‘ democracy ’ and ‘ liberty ’ ? |
| 11 | ‘ Can we not all contrive between us , without disturbing him ? ’ she said . |
| 12 | Is not social work the application of skills picked up in the ‘ University of Life ’ and do we not all know what deprived infants and troublesome adolescents need ? |
| 13 | Do we not all face the same loss , namely death ? |
| 14 | And do we not all have the same right to be saved ? |
| 15 | Are we not all fed up with ‘ artistic culture ’ ? |
| 16 | ‘ Have we not all , ’ he heard himself saying from the pulpit , ‘ as we have gazed on the ruins of the mighty Colosseum … = ’ Well , a few more of his congregation would have done that by then . |
| 17 | Have we not enough problems ? ’ |
| 18 | I looked in on him not half an hour ago , and he is fast asleep , and by the look of him he 'll sleep until past Prime tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | Systematically pushed to the margins in the labour market , past the household power of active parenthood , soon deprived of all but the trimmings of public influence , are they not all victims in the age-bound society of the contemporary West ? |
| 20 | In their own ways , do they not all see the world through rose-coloured spectacles ? |
| 21 | Ah … why can they not all be one ’ |
| 22 | The Old Testament contains memorable diatribes in the Book of Job , including a similarly optimistic assurance of its brevity : ‘ Knowest thou not this of old , … |
| 23 | I tried to write , but you must have thought it not much of a letter , for what you had done . |
| 24 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |
| 25 | By 1918 there were many Labour Party parliamentarians and trade unionists who would willingly have excluded the ILP from the party , were it not that opposition to the war had spread quite widely and had partly justified the ILP position . |
| 26 | Is it not all going to take more time ? ’ |
| 27 | Is it not all blindingly obvious ? |
| 28 | there does n't seem to be any sense to it really but you can try and make a bit of sense out of some of it not all of it but some of it you can make a bit of sense out of it yes . |
| 29 | ‘ So where ’ Sprague asked ‘ might it not all end ? ’ |
| 30 | But when Jesus heard this he said is it not those who are healthy who need a physi , it is not those who are healthy who need a physician , but those who are sick . |