Example sentences of "[vb past] not [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So deeply asleep , he moved not a muscle . |
| 2 | The child 's face moved not a muscle . |
| 3 | Is it not the case that when the Government privatised the electricity and gas companies they created not a range of companies which could induce real competition for the benefit of customers and the environment but large companies with near monopoly supply status which are not in the least interested in energy efficiency ? |
| 4 | But when I reached the foss I encountered not a fairy , but my first school party of the day . |
| 5 | Though it weighed not a pennyweight more . |
| 6 | I met not a soul on the walk , but the path was in very good condition , a feature we noticed many times in NZ , that the tracks are well looked-after even when apparently hardly used . |
| 7 | He fought like a fiend , but made not a sound . |
| 8 | What did the word ‘ delicious ’ mean to someone who cared not a fig about cuisine ? |
| 9 | And she wasted not a moment . |
| 10 | They sought not the abolition of hired labour , private enterprise and the commodity market but the abolition of the many semi-feudal bonds which survived the Edict of 1861 ; and they sought the transfer of noble land into their own hands . |
| 11 | He painted not the general , but the particular ; not the nude , but the naked , thus bringing sex back in an especially embarrassing way . |
| 12 | What happened was that I did the work and received not a word from anybody about it . |
| 13 | Does he realise that the islanders have run the ferry for many years and that until this year they received not a penny of subsidy , unlike the Scottish ferries ? |
| 14 | And then she knew it was true as , under the hot Mediterranean sun , their love was sealed for eternity in that final last desperate burst of flame and fire that heralded not the end of a wonderful Majorcan day but the beginning of their life and love together . |
| 15 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 16 | With a faint smile that showed not a hint of regret , he brushed his mouth against hers . |
| 17 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 18 | He envisaged not the possibility but the certainty of a Labour Government — ‘ when the Labour Party sit on these benches ’ . |
| 19 | THE CHAMPAGNE had been pouring into Downing Street since dawn , everything from a Nebuchadnezzar of Moet & Chandon to a bottle of Marks & Spencer 's own , but Mr Major touched not a drop . |
| 20 | To my amazement , on locating the source of the sound I discovered not the cat but a hedgehog in the process of killing and devouring a blackbird . |
| 21 | He knew when he was beneath the gate-towers because he could see how the machicolations projected against the sky rounded shapes of darkness void of stars ; but he heard not a sound , not even the tread of the watch on the walk between the towers . |
| 22 | What Sontag saw as the ‘ new sensibility ’ was clearly not a literary sensibility , but foregrounded a ‘ cooler art ’ with ‘ less content ’ ; it favoured not the novel , but music , dance , architecture , painting , sculpture . |
| 23 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 24 | The leading vehicle , driven by Fire Chief Bob Wallace , reinforced by short lengths of steel girder welded across its front , lost not a yard of its gathering momentum as it smashed through the inner set of gates , flinging them wide to hang drunkenly from their torn hinges . |
| 25 | I loathe Solé Tura , the man responsible for forcing such a decision , who lost not a moment 's sleep over the nightmare of the final decision on ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 26 | Benjamin seized his torch , brought the flame as near as he could and examined not the wounds , but rather the dead priest 's shabby , bloodstained tunic . |
| 27 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |
| 28 | I felt even readier when I saw not a Gharrgoyle insight at Gharr 's table . |
| 29 | And if Augustine 's understanding of how God can indeed be known incarnationally influenced the thinking of later mystics like Walter Hilton , Richard Rolle and Julian of Norwich , another tradition , which stressed not the links between Creator and created , but the darkness of the divide , was undoubtedly formative in the experience of the Cloud-author . |
| 30 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |