Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [not/n't] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Moore was actually offered money or not I have no idea . ’ |
| 2 | Er the idea was we 'd be able to sell it to people or give it to people depending on whether they had any money or not I suppose by the Green Party . |
| 3 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 4 | Murder or not it had to go on , and next day it did , Rose saw to that , although she was not herself . |
| 5 | Whiskers or not it seemed worth signing . |
| 6 | Well I put I put all these questions about erm have you witnessed violence or not I put |
| 7 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 8 | A young man once told us , following a talk on sex and relationships , that the reason he fondled his fiancée 's breasts was for her pleasure and not his . |
| 9 | But I do n't know whether it 's cold with it during the winter or not I know but |
| 10 | Now whether that 's erm including all the protective clothing or not I du n no . |
| 11 | I could cut and different things like that and be it fate or not his er suddenly lost his driving licence . |
| 12 | That was better for us because it 's in the next district and meant they had to do the work and not us . ’ |
| 13 | And if you have a very small amount of money , and a large number of erm demands on , on that budget , then the last thing you 're going to do , is to spend a lot of money reinforcing your house for an earthquake that may affect your grandchildren and not you . |
| 14 | HAMLET : That I can keep your counsel and not mine own . |
| 15 | the way he spoke , maybe that his part and not he was that , think he 's a took over the part if you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | One retired Somerset man told a visiting kinsman , ‘ You are likely to have but a short feast here , but I pray you if you have not good cheer blame my sonne John Webb and not me , for of my troth I have made him master of all . ’ |
| 17 | It appears to be a board-room decision and not his so let's not get on his back too quick . |
| 18 | The worrying thing is that botch-up or not they have succeeded in getting a car and two operatives into England . ’ |
| 19 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 20 | cost I 've done all the selling and not them . |
| 21 | But once he is dead Emeth meets Aslan and falls at his feet in instinctive adoration , as in terror , ‘ for the Lion … will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him ’ . |
| 22 | Cos you 're , it 's positive again , you 're in charge and not it . |
| 23 | The voters " must understand that , once they have elected an individual , political action is his business and not theirs . |
| 24 | I could never take after her can my sister but not me . |
| 25 | Whether he was around that night or not we 'll never know , but it seemed that everything that could go amiss , did . |
| 26 | A FURIOUS father crippled his ex-lover after she entered their son in a bonny baby contest in her name and not his . |
| 27 | Why do they send you things and not me anyway ? |
| 28 | He had forced his way into her life , arranged things so that she 'd had no choice but to do his bidding — and as soon as she 'd done something to make it clear that she was still her own person and not his , he 'd humiliated her . |
| 29 | I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me . |
| 30 | It is possible in theory to encode all the relevant information in an English translation , for example by using a circumlocution such as ‘ he and I but not you ’ for an exclusive ‘ we ’ , but this kind of detail would be too cumbersome in most contexts . |