Example sentences of "[verb] not [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The agent hass stopped us , but it iss not his fault , really ; it iss the Earl 's , ’ explained Jill , careful to be fair , ‘ though it iss really the people who leave the litter who are to blame , not even the Earl . |
| 3 | ‘ Touch not my son , Quigley , ’ said the old man , ‘ Leave him be ! ’ |
| 4 | BELVILLE : I have no reason to be ashamed of that duel you refer to since it was to save a friend , but suffer not your tongue to take too great a liberty with my Pamela . |
| 5 | Lose not your heart to the prince , child — he will wreak havoc with many a feminine heart , I doubt not , ere he reaches his majority . |
| 6 | Saying , Lay not thy hand upon the lad , |
| 7 | We are seeking not what Parliament meant but the true meaning of what they said . |
| 8 | We are seeking not what Parliament meant but the true meaning of what they said … ’ |
| 9 | Let not our union discriminate against the activists like the bosses do . |
| 10 | The coffin reached the catafalque as the minister finished his intonation : ‘ Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God believe also in me . |
| 11 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ ’ he said , imitating not her voice but its angry cadence . |
| 12 | I did tell Mrs. Jervis for my heart was almost broken , but I opened not my mouth to any other . |
| 13 | On the col itself , there is a small modern chapel and a memorial stone , which faces back down into Spain , Roland having heroically asked that he should be buried facing not his homeland but the enemy . |
| 14 | ‘ God grant he will soon regain his freedom — I know not which way to turn without him and Vaughan to advise me . ’ |
| 15 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 16 | Beneath the photograph was printed not her name , but a sobriquet , a common practice — Mrs Langtry was always know as ‘ The Jersey Lily ’ . |
| 17 | Desire directed across sexual difference , towards the other gender , elicits not its simulacrum ( as in homosexuality ) but its complement : ‘ Male desire evokes the loyalty which neutralises its vagrant impulses ; female desire evokes the conquering urge which overcomes its hesitations ’ ( p. 309 ) . |
| 18 | The voyage will certainly be a very expensive one but I doubt not my work will have a great sale in consequence and if so amply repay me for my exertions . |
| 19 | In fact the populace , bewildered by rumour and uncertain as to the truth , knew not which way to turn . |
| 20 | With she knew not what power of self-denial Sarella tried to edge away so that Marc 's body was n't pressing so vibrantly against her own . |
| 21 | The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity . |
| 22 | [ 'Put not your trust in princes , Shallot ! ’ my chaplain often quips . |
| 23 | Did not our Lord declare that His Father heard Him always ? |
| 24 | ‘ Did not your father 's parents lend a hand in your upbringing ? ’ |
| 25 | Similarly in 69 , which has eleven instances of Thou and none of I , the analysis of the Friend 's misbehaviour focuses on the discrepancy between his outward beauty ( ‘ thy fair flower ’ ) and his mind and action ( ‘ the rank smell of weeds ’ ) , an inconsistency given more biting expression by the double pun in the couplet : ‘ But why thy odour matcheth not thy show , /The soil is this — that thou dost common grow . ’ |
| 26 | the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee . |
| 27 | Molly Pargeter , a woman of forty , whose hair was kept in place with difficulty , might have looked like one of the larger Graces in the paintings she admired had not her size caused her such embarrassment that she lowered her head and stooped a little as she walked . |
| 28 | Had not her sister Alice cautioned her of the dangers in being alone with a man , now that she had reached marriageable age ? |
| 29 | Peony preferred to be regarded for herself and not just as a stamp of her mother 's , for her mother was beautiful , but Peony knew that although she did look the pattern of her mother , she had not her beauty or her presence . |
| 30 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |