Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Peper Peter had to accept it not just once you know and then he was a changed man . |
| 2 | Also , in today 's er Scotland on Sunday , gathered , they found it not just Edinburgh , but Britain as whole I think . |
| 3 | This might well have saved them not just travelling time , but also energy . |
| 4 | Peter might have supposed that they were lovers from Tom 's ardour and her acquiescence , might have thought it not just tactful but a requirement to leave them alone together . |
| 5 | De Gaulle , however , defended it not just in economic terms but on the grounds that inflation would imperil the franc and throw France on the mercy of foreigners . |
| 6 | It gives more information and even tells you not just how to survive yourself but how to rescue others . |
| 7 | It would make it not just a dream , it would make it something that actually was possible to achieve . |
| 8 | Proper leaning gives you not just more mpg but a healthier engine too , says John Gratton . |
| 9 | If Theo was worried about marriage settlements in the event of death " why do you not just knife your wife and have done with it ? " |
| 10 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 11 | The proud blood of generations of Romans pulsed in his veins , making him not just an ordinary man but Prince Nicolo Sabatini . |
| 12 | The Holy Spirit is God 's gift to us , and he means us not just to read about him but to make use of him . |
| 13 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 14 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 15 | Does he not just see Lapps ? |
| 16 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 17 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 18 | Capital therefore provides us not just with a view of the economy , but with a way of analysing the structure and development of a whole society . |