Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [not/n't] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nurse gave a small laugh as he said , ‘ Well , not until he 's ready , and I should think not this time . |
| 2 | ‘ My lady , I shall say not another word on the subject ! ’ she declared to Joan now . |
| 3 | If you summon up the courage to investigate , you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two , emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders . |
| 4 | We must think of the nervous system encoding the perceived world ; and in trying to understand this process we should consider not individual spikes but their potentially infinite combinations . |
| 5 | In all this we should see not personal vanity — Pope John was too old for that — but an act of primatial responsibility . |
| 6 | When tracing the various political , constitutional and religious developments which made the age of Walpole very different from the Restoration , we shall discover not one watershed when everything changed at once , but rather a series of discrete chronologies of change . |