Example sentences of "and [not/n't] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olsen points out that this sort of imagery is alienating for poets who happen to be women ; I would point out in addition the rather sinister implication that men are somehow masters of language , so that they and not we are entitled to decide her fate . |
| 2 | The more firmly he tells them and the country that , as Prime Minister , he and not they will rule , the more likely it is that he will eventually reach Downing Street . |
| 3 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 4 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 5 | Her and not her . |
| 6 | I expect she 's jealous really , because it 's me he 's interested in and not her . ’ |
| 7 | And why did he believe Havvie , and not her ? |
| 8 | I love her dearly and , God forgive me , when unexpectedly Havvie Blaine came into our lives and lied about her I believed him , and not her . |
| 9 | You ca n't blame him and not her . |
| 10 | She should have been , would have been , indeed , originally it had been Cara and not her who had been going to make the trip to Czechoslovakia alone . |
| 11 | It had better be that and not him having another of his scenes . |
| 12 | will be the respect and regard with which the populace hold their own Chiefs and Elders , and not him , combined with general good relations between the private individuals which compose the clan , and the general prosperity of the unit … where the policy of the government is to rule indirectly the political officer must be satisfied with the knowledge , locked securely in his breast , that he is very important to the native population although they are not aware of it . |
| 13 | But once he is dead Emeth meets Aslan and falls at his feet in instinctive adoration , as in terror , ‘ for the Lion … will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him ’ . |
| 14 | Not you , my dear , with your frankly fabulous soul , and not me , alive alive-o ! |
| 15 | So when , in 1959 , it was decided to build a mid-engined car , I was violently affronted that Berthon and his staff at Bourne would design it , and not me at Folkingham . |
| 16 | Why she was sent away in disgrace , why he wanted his son back and not me — so he could have an heir . |
| 17 | One retired Somerset man told a visiting kinsman , ‘ You are likely to have but a short feast here , but I pray you if you have not good cheer blame my sonne John Webb and not me , for of my troth I have made him master of all . ’ |
| 18 | So why is Doyle hit and not me ? ’ |
| 19 | Was that why she told you and not me ? ’ |
| 20 | Maybe they 've got me going and not me them since I 'm so used to seeing dribbly noddings on trains . |
| 21 | And then seagulls flew free , and a flock of sparrows , and they seemed to own the sky and not me . |
| 22 | Why do they send you things and not me anyway ? |
| 23 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 24 | I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me . |
| 25 | Now since I take to water like a duck does to orange sauce I enlisted the help of Suzanne here because if there 's any fooling in the water to be done I 'd rather she did it and not me . |
| 26 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 27 | cost I 've done all the selling and not them . |
| 28 | Clive Greenacre , then expressing only his own anger and not hers as well , became less irritable . |
| 29 | ‘ The loss is yours and not hers , ’ said the Arab . |
| 30 | But she was not at all like any of these people , and the experiences in the book are theirs and not hers . |