Example sentences of "[pron] not [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not also walk over the same stones ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 2 | all different meanings of the wor but can you not just look at the dictionary and read the dictionary ? |
| 3 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 4 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 5 | Does it not merely subtract from what is already there , and should n't a truly creative process add something too ? |
| 6 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |