Example sentences of "not [prep] the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be . |
| 2 | Not for the first time he reflected on the power of grief . |
| 3 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 4 | Not for the first time he thought how monotonous it was , this unerring selection of inappropriate objects of desire . |
| 5 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |
| 6 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 7 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 8 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 9 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 10 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 11 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 12 | Not for the first time she missed her husband dreadfully . |
| 13 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 14 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 15 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 16 | Not for the first time she wished she had a car . |
| 17 | You scare me , Folly — you 're not like the other women I 've known . |
| 18 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 19 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 20 | It seems reasonable to say that without Law there would have been no NFCC , at least not in the powerful form it reached in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 21 | ‘ If I 'm not in the right mood I get very guarded and do n't want to talk to people . |
| 22 | ‘ I told him he had to go carefully , he was not in the strong position he liked to imagine . |
| 23 | ‘ But these days if you 're not in the Premier League you do n't even merit a look . |
| 24 | Physics is physics , is n't it , you ca n't really discuss … not in the same sense you can discuss a novel or something , you ca n't really discuss a formula . |
| 25 | ‘ Not in the same piece I hope ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Many want to stay , but not in the same place we live in now , ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ Not since the last time you were here , Father . ’ |
| 28 | When you are not on the international panel it is hard to work your way in . |
| 29 | ‘ Not till the next time you come , anyway , and that might not be for ages . ’ |
| 30 | She is not keen on hardbacks : ‘ If it was n't for the literary editors we would n't be publishing in hardback any more — some books we would , but not a lot . ’ |