Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Star Trek 's something that will never die , I mean not Star Trek erm Dar |
| 2 | I mean I do n't think they do , they do that these days , I hope not any rate . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | But tell me if you will , whilst you were attending to these sartorial niceties , the small , yet I feel not insignificant matter of our impending relegation to Sheol did n't , perchance , wend its winged way into your mercurial consciousness ? ’ |
| 5 | I gave not one cheep , not a chirrup — |
| 6 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 7 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 8 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 9 | I I have not one person ring me up and say ooh you rotten tory taking that money out of |
| 10 | I have not one son but two . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't like being reminded that I have not one drop of blood to link me with my family . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No , I have not such pleasure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 16 | I beseech you say not one word but " yes " or " no " till I have said all I have to say . |
| 17 | you 've not much proof you can prove them |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the act of conducting you made such inward exertions that you had not enough energy left to watch over the outward appearance . |
| 20 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 21 | After lunch , the clerk asks all those who have not this day shot with the captain to withdraw . |
| 22 | ‘ And you expect me to work for you , knowing you have not one ounce of faith in my abilities as a landscape designer ? ’ |
| 23 | One retired Somerset man told a visiting kinsman , ‘ You are likely to have but a short feast here , but I pray you if you have not good cheer blame my sonne John Webb and not me , for of my troth I have made him master of all . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | and we 've not much fur ; |
| 26 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 27 | With a great part of the matters with which they dealt we have not much concern . |
| 28 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 29 | In some respects there seems not much room for argument about our conception of standard effects and their causal circumstances . |
| 30 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |