Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [not/n't] only [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's a clever lass , you know ; she does n't only sing , but she plays the piano ; composes a bit an' all . ’ |
| 2 | When Lacan speaks of the Other , he does not only mean the world of concrete others , but indicates an outside symbolic field of language which we are inserted into . |
| 3 | He does not only improve himself and his estate , but his servants too , as Harriet remarks : |
| 4 | It is not always understood that he does not only help her but has frequently to lead her into a movement . |
| 5 | He does n't only own the warehouse but has property dotted all over the city . |
| 6 | He is tall and cold and sometimes he does n't only come for pigs he comes for greedy little girls who make pigs of themselves , with too many sweets ! ’ |
| 7 | It does not only teach people to obey the law out of fear and prudence ( which is deterrence ) ; it also sends a symbolic moral message that the offender 's action is socially abhorred , and therefore wrong . |
| 8 | this is different from the sort that we get , it , it , it does n't only affect older people , children get it , it 's so |
| 9 | But the danger that it threatens is no small matter , and conference , it does n't only affect women , because if you lose a child or a partner , a cousin , an aunt , or a sister , then brothers , it affects you . |
| 10 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 11 | Like mathematics , it does n't only stretch the imagination . |