Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 2 | ‘ You going on all right , girl ? ’ enquired Mrs Yaxlee who , though she did not commune with nature , was nevertheless comradely with it . |
| 3 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 4 | it is against freedom of trade and natural justice to subject one group of solicitors to extra rules because they do not practice in partnership ; |
| 5 | Were the paleness and emotion on his face as he arrived not fury at Pipkin 's performance but symptoms of poison ? |
| 6 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 7 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 8 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |