Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |
| 2 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | But he did n't just try the handle . |
| 7 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 8 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
| 9 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |