Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not confined to security information but encompassed any information which was not in the interests of the state to disclose . |
| 2 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not meaning to talk shop but I thought you might be interested . ’ |
| 4 | We were n't clad in PT kit but in woollen pullovers and regulation slacks and it seemed unlikely that anything violent was imminent . |
| 5 | Oh yes I do n't know about song Chairman but er suppose I 'm singing a song of some sort . |
| 6 | It turned out that it was n't sited in farming country but in Main Street , Hull . |
| 7 | It 's rather late for the press releases on some months later , the press release coming from my group and coming from the Labour group it was a late conversion but not much of a conversion let's face it , the word tokenism springs to mind that 's what I 've written next to the Conservative line there , totally , and I do n't believe in nursery education but they know there are votes in it . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ The letters we received do n't point to customer misuse but components failing prematurely . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |