Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 2 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |
| 3 | Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward . |
| 4 | The story of how the convalescent David Stirling got his proposal into the hands of General Auchinleck was told to the journalist Virginia Cowles in 1958 , and is based on Stirling 's memory of events not too long after they occurred . |
| 5 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |