Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean not many people who 'd clashed with mrs thatcher did survive . |
| 2 | I mean not all of them are like it but |
| 3 | I mean that just sounds like familiar you know , I mean not that |
| 4 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 5 | I mean I do n't think they do , they do that these days , I hope not any rate . |
| 6 | Now I know not all players are like this . |
| 7 | Yeah , I know not all the time , but it 's better than sitting on your fat arse at home in n it . |
| 8 | In 1547 , after the English victory over the Scots at Pinkie , Huntly was to say ‘ I hold well with the marriage , but I like not this wooing ’ . |
| 9 | I guess not many that are sat in this room . |
| 10 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 11 | I wish I had not such an account of grumpiness to give you . |
| 12 | As the clouds of imminent civil war gathered , Pelham hastened back to Hull where he later wrote : ‘ I kept the King out of Hull when he came in person ( although I had not such instructions from the House ) — where was a very great magazine in which I suppose I saved the State above £100,000 … |
| 13 | I 've not all that many people . |
| 14 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , I have not such pleasure . |
| 16 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 17 | I think I have not more to say . |
| 18 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 19 | No , she says not , she says not all men but she says a lot of them have inbred to them that they ca n't cry and and all that . |
| 20 | Yeah but you ca n't that was a little bit fluky you know not much . |
| 21 | Yes , stool making , you know I 've got a stool here , I made that stool over there ages ago for me daughter-in-law and this one I can not get it right I 've , I 've , it 's , it 's , I 'm trying I 've got to undo it again there , it 's not right , I think it is because the cord 's too thick , it 's a very thick cord and I 've not got enough stitches you know not enough strands on it , but I 'm gon na do it , it 'll be done before Christmas I 've got to do it otherwise |
| 22 | And she died not more than a few months ago . |
| 23 | ‘ How do you mean not all that much ? ’ |
| 24 | you 've not much proof you can prove them |
| 25 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 26 | She said not more than a month . |
| 27 | In the act of conducting you made such inward exertions that you had not enough energy left to watch over the outward appearance . |
| 28 | If you have not enough people , only use one candle … or none . |
| 29 | I think , you know , it it it 's er something we made not all that |
| 30 | We saw not another soul , even when we finally reached the clearing where a number of circular dustbin-sized holes had been neatly excavated in the red mud . |