Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Scottish Office has not had it all its own way . |
| 2 | Well , you 've got the list of names and er , I think Mrs was quite right in asking not to read them all out . |
| 3 | I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . |
| 4 | Cavalry did not have it all their own way . |
| 5 | But over that weekend , diesels did not have it all to themselves as the unique two coach Battery Electric Multiple Unit was diagrammed for three return trips . |
| 6 | However , the entertainers did not have it all their own way , as preachers such as Donald Soper , Will Sangster and Leslie Weatherhead also spoke there . |
| 7 | She realised that even the keepers of the secrets did not know them all . |
| 8 | Thus criminal laws against murder , rape , robbery , and assault do protect us all , but they do not protect us all equally . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not offer you all the churches , ’ Thorfinn said . |
| 10 | It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts . |
| 11 | Please do not judge us all by these ignorant officials . |
| 12 | He had not checked them all personally . |
| 13 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 14 | ‘ But I feel annoyed that she had not thought it all through . |
| 15 | He had not told her all he knew , she was sure of that , but he had confirmed her deduction about the provenance of the Durance paintings although he had stressed she could prove nothing . |
| 16 | Many of the old cases could indeed be subsumed within the new doctrine , but it does not cover them all . |
| 17 | Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all . |
| 18 | While the private person/other distinction accounts for most of the variance , it does not explain it all . |
| 19 | Although IBM acknowledges that open systems should be able to use TCP/IP , Unix , Network File System , and X-server emulation at the desktop , Workstation One does not use them all . |
| 20 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 22 | You 've not had them all day ! |
| 23 | He wonders whether anyone now has sympathy for the Shah or whether his vanity , his vainglory , his hectoring , his insensitivity his military obsessions , have not lost him all goodwill , at home and abroad . |
| 24 | We have not heard it all before , unless we have read , as few of us have , Harriet Zinnes 's compendium Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts , which all these essayists draw on very heavily . |
| 25 | These new data have made for better informed controversies but have not resolved them all . |