Example sentences of "he not [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Elizabeth , watching , felt an unexpected sympathy for her , remembering how she had felt herself , with baby Alan in her arms and him not even hers .
2 He was getting old , he thought , and him not even seventy .
3 Cut out and send with your entry to Mr Greg Rigby , Managing Director , Pendle Consultants Ltd , Pendle House , Long Preston , North Yorks BD23 4PU ( 072 94615 ) to reach him not later than Monday October 16 .
4 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 .
5 The proud blood of generations of Romans pulsed in his veins , making him not just an ordinary man but Prince Nicolo Sabatini .
6 started to make him not well again .
7 Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen .
8 At the in which he is involved and does have a part in shaping : these processes will appear to him not as broad generalities , but as a collection of micro-processes , the technicalities and particularities of daily life .
9 She wanted him not there , but at least if he would just stop , just for a minute , and say something to her .
10 Former racing driver Stirling Moss said he was absolutely staggered , adding : ‘ I saw him not too long ago and he was exceptionally fit .
11 The seven evenings under Temple gave him not much new , because he had read Temple .
12 But what with him not actually being a Messiah , and simply a man who drinks Tennent 's Extra , we have to ask ourselves : is this believable ?
13 By gum she she had some trouble on him not half .
14 I urge him not merely to consider the matter but , because of the strength of feeling shown here , to take action as soon as possible , so that our hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West and his family will not have suffered in vain .
15 He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities .
16 Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph .
17 The 10,000 metres of film recording Hitler at the grandiose military parade and celebrations for his fiftieth birthday in April 1939 consciously sought to portray him not only as a ‘ statesman ’ , but also as ‘ the future military leader , taking muster of his armed forces ’ .
18 I will paint for him not only the visible universe , but all that he can conceive of nature 's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom .
19 The King placed before him not only works of Wagenseil , but those of [ Johann Christian ] Bach , Abel and Handel and he played off everything prima vista …
20 His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands .
21 This man from Mountain Ash pointed him not only towards the theatre but to his own Olympus of ambition — the University of Oxford of which , in those days , a miner 's son could not even afford to dream .
22 Charles of Blois was the candidate favoured by Philip VI , and Edward accordingly supported Montfort , offering him not only military assistance but also the earldom of Richmond , with which the Breton ducal family had a connection going back to the Norman Conquest .
23 It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties .
24 Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event .
25 Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one .
26 Caesar found in him not only valuable factual information about places and institutions , but an encouraging analysis of the weakness of Celtic society .
27 All evening she 'd been aware of him not only as the uncle of the delinquent who had abducted Suzie , but also on a separate level she had no wish to analyse .
28 William of Normandy , in his mid-twenties , was already married to Matilda , the daughter of Baldwin of Flanders , flouting Pope Leo 's injunction , linking him not only to Lille and Bruges and Ghent , but to Tostig , the son of Earl Godwin who had married Judith of Flanders , Matilda 's aunt .
29 The drawing reminded him not only of Rosa Ponselle 's photograph , but also the wicked queen in Snow White .
30 Cowley never looked anything less than dapper , in his long black greatcoat , bowler hat on head , umbrella carried over left arm , despite the chauffeured car that was waiting for him not more than a hundred yards away .
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