Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do . |
| 2 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 3 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 4 | ‘ Not so far as we know , ’ a man in a flat cap wearing a Hawks Club tie told him . |
| 5 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 6 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 7 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 9 | Not so far as I know . |
| 10 | But he was n't a friend of Hilary 's , not so far as I know . ’ |
| 11 | Not so far as I recollect . ’ |
| 12 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 13 | Melissa was on her way in a flash , but not so quickly that she missed the knowing look on Iris 's face . |
| 14 | It 's not so long since we learned the link between eating certain ‘ E ’ numbers and the behaviour of highly disruptive children . |
| 15 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 16 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 17 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 18 | ‘ Not so long as you keep within the law . ’ |
| 19 | So that 's many hundred years ago now but it is er er it 's not long ago since I read that in w in museum in Ayloch |
| 20 | Well , practical purposes at this stage sir she maintains insufficient I 've no doubt the licensee will want to know a lot more about the situation , it 's very apparent it 's not long ago that they last ta transferred to their present holding . |
| 21 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 22 | She never , she n never has And er well she fell down the road not long ago and she went into hospital . |
| 23 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 24 | Er not not really because it does n't sp stop the people coming into Newark that were coming anyway . |
| 25 | Until we do , I would suggest , and it 's not just about until we do , then , I do n't think we 're going to make really serious dint with the number of children that we now have in care . |
| 26 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 27 | So there 's a there 's a good point I mean very often you 'll get this point in the origin not always though so you have to watch that . |
| 28 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 29 | It melted as it fell , but not as fast as it fell . |
| 30 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |