Example sentences of "[pers pn] not [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 2 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 3 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 4 | Have we not in such circumstances arrived at that ‘ elective dictatorship ’ of which Lord Hailsham gave warning in 1977 : |
| 5 | Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language . |
| 6 | Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language . |
| 7 | In 1983 , the governing Conservative Party in Britain was keen to point out that the rate of increase in unemployment from 1982 to 1983 was higher in the United States , Germany , the Netherlands , and Canada than it was in the United Kingdom ( a 23.1% increase in the United States compared with 11.8% in the United Kingdom ) and that unemployment would be higher in other countries were it not in some cases for conscription and a retirement age for men of 60 . |
| 8 | Did he not at that time , on the brink of collapse , feel something sustaining him , feeding him , encouraging him ? |