Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 2 | Even today there are many areas of constitutional law regulated not by statute but by the common law as expounded by our judges . |
| 3 | Significantly , Leslie Howard , in the famous film of 1938 , misunderstood this phrase , which he uttered as if it referred not to sex but to Eliza herself . |
| 4 | She pretended not to notice . |
| 5 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 6 | The speeches of ministers have reiterated the themes that it is not the job of government to solve as many problems as previously , that ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers when spending public money , that ‘ real ’ jobs will be created and sustained not by government subsidy but by workers making goods which people will buy , that the criterion of ‘ value for money ’ be applied to public-sector activities , and that the private sector should be encouraged because it creates the wealth which the public sector requires . |
| 7 | On the outside of the rampart there was an astonishing collection of white skeletons which he tried not to look at but which rattled unpleasantly as the jackals took to their heels at his approach . |
| 8 | so he tried not to look but he 's , you know |
| 9 | She tried not to worry , but the thought of coming face to face with the handsome , the dashing Miguelito made her heart thump in her chest . |
| 10 | Marilla tried not to laugh , but she could n't stop herself . |
| 11 | She tried not to blush , but could feel the heat creeping into her face . |
| 12 | Mourners tried not to cry yesterday , but most failed . |
| 13 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 14 | The events of the 1540s led not to decision , but to increased floundering , and a rush for cover . |
| 15 | The government agreed not to station security forces on Bougainville on condition that the BRA disbanded itself and surrendered its weapons and prisoners to an international peace-keeping force . |
| 16 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 17 | He fought not for honour or glory but to put an end to the threat of Naggaroth for all time . |
| 18 | But the fires were bonfires and the bells told not of danger but of joy . |
| 19 | The place itself , the arrangement of those low , recently rebuilt stone farms and the few mud and wattle cottages , the eternal comfort of the lake 's shape and colours which seemed not to mirror but to temper her mood , the rise of fells which gave her sensibility its reach . |
| 20 | Dimly she saw the Great Tower peak in a cone of white flame ; Adam seemed not to move , but Fand and Liban fell , and Fincara staggered before the sheeting fire . |
| 21 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 22 | These leads , rejected not without reason , proved almost impossible to crack , although the odd few good ones would always emerge like gold nuggets in the granite . |
| 23 | ‘ On Tuesday the call came not at lunchtime but early in the morning , about seven forty-five . |
| 24 | In I Thessalonians 1:5 Paul reminds his readers how the gospel was first preached to them : ‘ it came not in word only , but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in full assurance . ’ |
| 25 | When it came to slum clearance , opposition came not from slum landlords but from the residents themselves . |
| 26 | As police mounted round-the-clock guards on properties last night , one of those named vowed not to back down . |
| 27 | Soon the hunters who travelled by rail hunted not for food or protection , but for trophies and sport . |
| 28 | Some Marxists identify these groups as a ‘ new working class ’ , exploited not by hand , but by brain . |
| 29 | His mistakes in foreign affairs sprang not from expansionism or malevolence but from non-comprehension , shortsightedness and an undue sense of his own importance . |
| 30 | ‘ When the government decided not to ringfence the money , the future was still uncertain during the period of the judicial review . |