Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 2 | And , and we sort of no yours does n't necessarily apply to some people to say , they might just think , oh it 'll be |
| 3 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
| 4 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |
| 5 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 6 | Margaret Beckett , the other half of the Treasury team , is a stalwart of the press conference platform and the Labour politician most respected by the Conservatives , although she has not always inspired on the hustings . |
| 7 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 8 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 9 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 10 | She has not only lost her husband but her father . |
| 11 | In creating ‘ Passion ’ , she has not only documented the activities of BWCP but also provided ‘ an excellent introduction to the range and intensity of Blackwomen 's Creativity in Britain ’ |
| 12 | She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades . |
| 13 | Like Snow White 's wicked stepmother , she has not only abandoned her adopted heir to the company of dwarves ; she lives in terror that he might yet be more admired and loved than she . |
| 14 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 15 | Second , she has not only cleaned up her act , she seems to have adopted a remarkably apt late twentieth-century camouflage : from Baltic peasant to stereotypical dyke 's delight is a transition not normally catered for in those women 's magazines that offer readers new looks for new lifestyles . |
| 16 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 17 | Tom asked , with a touch of impatience , then added in an aside to Faye and Bill , ‘ See , she 's so impressed she has n't even heard me ! ’ |
| 18 | She has n't even put seams on them . |
| 19 | She has n't , she has n't even got them out of the bo , out the out of the bag yet . |
| 20 | She , she has n't even offered any help ? |
| 21 | But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere . |
| 22 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 23 | Once or twice my mum has even gone into a light trance , and , though she has n't yet contacted anyone interesting , we have great hopes of her . |
| 24 | ‘ She has n't quite got it right , but if she wants to come round my flat … ’ |
| 25 | But she has n't quite got the hang of pop-star posing yet . |
| 26 | And I said well And she , well to be honest Bren she said , she has n't really done anything to me and Sid has she ? |
| 27 | what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any |
| 28 | I do n't know actually , she has n't really said that she wants it she 's talked about it , but she has n't said whether she wants the job or not . |
| 29 | I do n't think , probably she has n't really thought it , she 's , she 's been more concerned with her own self but she 's . |
| 30 | and maybe she 'll have someone to visit in London cos she has n't really got any friends in London . |