Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not just [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
| 2 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 4 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 5 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 6 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |