Example sentences of "[not/n't] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a century or more after the Romans had left — not that they influenced these parts very much — they built their walls and garrisons and roads and left the wild fell folk alone . |
| 2 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 3 | The reason for setting out these reservations at such length is not that we have any doubts about the value to consumers of credit cost information . |
| 4 | Not that I 've any complaints about your two , do n't mistake me . |
| 5 | Not that I 've any complaints on that score , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 7 | Not that I 've any time for that widow of his . |
| 8 | I even took its number just to prove how professional I was , not that I had any idea how it could help . |
| 9 | Not that I had any idea what his present salary was . |
| 10 | ‘ Not that I had any doubts on the score , ’ Penry assured her as they set off towards Haverfordwest . |
| 11 | No way could a person eat something like that — not that I had any intention of killing and consuming the poor creature , now that my eyes had been opened . |
| 12 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 13 | Not that I knew any foreigners , though I recall thinking that there were two kinds . |
| 14 | ‘ Not that I paid much mind to it myself . |
| 15 | ‘ Not , ’ Gaily said , worried , ‘ not that I meet bad people . |
| 16 | Not that I disapprove rural Pleasures , as the Poets have painted them ; in their Landschape every Phillis has her Coridon , every murmuring Stream , and every flowry Mead gives fresh Alarms to Love . |
| 17 | While Cubism aims at purity of draughtsmanship , Orphism is an attempt at ‘ pure ’ painting , not that it involves pure colours , that is to say colours as they come out of the tube . |
| 18 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 19 | Not that it makes much difference . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , not that it makes much difference these days anyway , but yes , you 're right ; it is a bit soon . |
| 21 | Not that it makes any difference . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Not that it makes any difference , ’ Trent had agreed . |
| 23 | Not that it makes any difference . |
| 24 | Not that he harboured any sympathy for that foolish act . |
| 25 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |
| 26 | But Genesis delivered the coup de grace , for it was stated that God had rested on the seventh day , not that he had immediate y started work on other worlds . |
| 27 | He was running away — not that he had any need . |
| 28 | Not that he wished any harm to Rose , and it was n't as if she would be on her own because , being the wife of Peter , and he the stable man , she was well set in their cottage . |
| 29 | The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues . |
| 30 | Not that he has any ambitions to be thought high-brow . |