Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , not everyone agreed , or perhaps did not get what they considered to be their fair share , for eventually the Backless baron was transported to Australia , no doubt to become another ‘ Wild Colonial Boy ’ . |
| 2 | However , not everyone blinked . |
| 3 | The faculty could not think that a young man of 35 years , who had written one book which not everyone thought wonderful , could hold a candle to his predecessor . |
| 4 | Not everyone shared Calvet 's fear . |
| 5 | Not everyone shared in the boom ; in particular the farmers did not . |
| 6 | Some of those who attended the lecture have implied to me that not everyone took it particularly seriously . |
| 7 | It just occurred to me that not everyone got a chance to see the FA Youth Cup Final ! |
| 8 | Not everyone managed to overcome their inhibitions . |
| 9 | Clearly , everyone present had to understand what commitments were being entered into , and not everyone knew Latin or was bilingual in Romance and Old High German . |
| 10 | The survey found that everyone , expected I B M to be involved in corporate social responsibility programmes , but not everyone knew what our programmes were . |
| 11 | Not everyone saw this as an ‘ explosion ’ as such , but those commentators who did , like the much-quoted Thomas Malthus , prophesied disaster if the growth could n't be controlled ; how was the country to survive when there were hundreds of thousands of extra mouths to feed every year ? |
| 12 | ‘ Not everyone had the same pudding , ’ said the inspector with a certain tenacity . |
| 13 | Not everyone had sufficient assets of sufficient value to cover what he still owed , or was willing to surrender them , but the new scheme certainly benefited a large number . |
| 14 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 15 | Surely not everyone had gone home ? |
| 16 | Not everyone had taken shelter in the hill-forts . |
| 17 | She moved slowly , so slowly indeed that for a moment she was alone in the centre of the aisle , a swan gliding on still water abandoned there , waiting to be rescued — creating such emotion in several manly breasts that not everyone noticed that the bride and groom had already reached the altar , waiting the approach of their chief bridesmaid before they could be joined together . |
| 18 | Not everyone responded positively to Dispatches . |
| 19 | Not everyone desired to mimic the magnificent pomp of the College of Arms ; others knew what a risky business this could be , for the College maintained a rigid overview of funerary practices countrywide , taking to task any family which emulated that type of funeral reserved by the rules of etiquette for those of nobler birth . |
| 20 | In Washington not everyone understood at once how complete Khomeini 's revolution was . |
| 21 | Later still , living in Canada , travelling in the United States and working with Americans , I came to understand that not everyone lived history in the same way ; that for many Americans , history was only a bunch of dead stories . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , my own company has always given plenty of headroom , but not everyone perceived it thus . |
| 23 | Besides , not everyone wore shoes with laces . |
| 24 | Not everyone recognized this second requirement . |
| 25 | I was just surprised that not everyone wanted to be an actor . |
| 26 | Not everyone approved . |
| 27 | Not everyone destroyed the puppies in their dogs ' litters , as Kalchu had done with the red bitch 's , and there were any number of dogs that belonged to no one — wandering through the village , scavenging what they could find , breeding and multiplying . |
| 28 | Not everyone proved to be a persistent reader of one paper ( or even of a group of similar papers ) but the majority did . |
| 29 | It is the rhetoric of Romanticism — ‘ the egotistical sublime ’ — and not everyone liked or likes it . |
| 30 | The Derwent valley , which exemplifies along its bottom so much industrial history of the water-power age , attracted large mills from the beginning by reason of its fast-flowing river ; but not everyone admired the result as Wright of Derby did . |