Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep has left me and I feel that I have not long to live . |
| 2 | ‘ That nice lady sat there explaining to me that she had n't long to live . |
| 3 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 4 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 5 | Why did Doctor Lanyon think that he had not long to live ? |
| 6 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 7 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 8 | ‘ Such a shame about the weather , and you have n't long to enjoy our Mediterranean climes , have you , my dear ? ’ |
| 9 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 10 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |
| 11 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 12 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 13 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 14 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 15 | Anna was in danger of dying because he had not enough to offer her to replace what she would be losing . |