Example sentences of "[pers pn] [not/n't] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Pied Piper ’ side of Dominic is seen in a verse called Without Finance : As I saunter unabashed , Best foot forward , Hair slicked back , Am I not just the sort of chap That fortune often favours ? |
| 2 | Well , well that 's what I said , but she says can I not just alter it and leave it at that ? |
| 3 | Refugees bring with them not just a bundle of belongings but an accumulation of skills and knowledge and a real determination to make a positive contribution to their new country . |
| 4 | This might well have saved them not just travelling time , but also energy . |
| 5 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 6 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 7 | It gives more information and even tells you not just how to survive yourself but how to rescue others . |
| 8 | Proper leaning gives you not just more mpg but a healthier engine too , says John Gratton . |
| 9 | If Theo was worried about marriage settlements in the event of death " why do you not just knife your wife and have done with it ? " |
| 10 | Could you not just have asked me ? ’ |
| 11 | So I can you not just stick it out till I ring Brian ? |
| 12 | all different meanings of the wor but can you not just look at the dictionary and read the dictionary ? |
| 13 | Can you not just read the dictionary ? |
| 14 | Can you not just take John 's now ? |
| 15 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 16 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 17 | Could we not just put |
| 18 | could we not just circulate them ? |
| 19 | Erm , can we not just toss some thoughts |
| 20 | Well Terry confirmed that to me yesterday cos I asked the question could we not just run it |
| 21 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 22 | The proud blood of generations of Romans pulsed in his veins , making him not just an ordinary man but Prince Nicolo Sabatini . |
| 23 | Yeah , pumps and seals and er different things , all , all kind of pumps , water erm water , gas , erm petrol pumps every everything whatever you know , and they 're making their own , it 's not , they not just , he buys the rough er the , what |
| 24 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 25 | And it' not just the people who are on the dole but the employers too . |
| 26 | Is it not just as strange for me to state out loud ‘ p , but I do n't have any vocal chords ’ ? |
| 27 | Peter might have supposed that they were lovers from Tom 's ardour and her acquiescence , might have thought it not just tactful but a requirement to leave them alone together . |
| 28 | ‘ Why can it not just say we 've landed ? ’ |
| 29 | Also , in today 's er Scotland on Sunday , gathered , they found it not just Edinburgh , but Britain as whole I think . |
| 30 | And Peper Peter had to accept it not just once you know and then he was a changed man . |