Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] this [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that message from Constantinople , sent here , and at this time , he saw the hand of Acciajuoli , not of this self-seeking merchant . |
| 2 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 3 | Not with this bleeding hand . |
| 4 | Not with this hateful man waiting , watching . |
| 5 | I think ( actor 's voice ) people who are not in this great business of ours think the idea of electronic messages flying around is really odd and they may get freaked if some of what is said is a bit inflammatory- maybe more so than if they saw it printed . |
| 6 | Not in this ruddy obscurity . |
| 7 | You could n't keep a thing like that hidden for very long , not in this damn town . |
| 8 | Not in this airless back yard with its cat-fouled alley , yet now it bore shining green leaves and four fat flower buds — and Gerry would never see them . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd like to be out there — not in this dark room . |
| 10 | ‘ Not in this old world , ’ Elsie would say , beginning a sigh that ended in a cough and lighting another cigarette . |
| 11 | They are not in this vacuum-like context . |
| 12 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 13 | His parents lived there once — and generations before them — on this patch of land , if not in this particular accommodation . |
| 14 | Not until this very moment , she realised ruefully , flashing him as calm a smile as she could manage . |
| 15 | No , not on this particular committee services |
| 16 | Not to this hard man who wanted to grind her into the dirt . |
| 17 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 18 | Not really not at this particular stage you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | Oracle Corp chief financial officer Jeff Henley says that Oracle7 should be in production by the end of this month : he told the Alex Brown technology seminar in Baltimore that Version 7 will be available through a controlled release programme as its customers request upgrades ; he also said that Oracle 's goal is to return to double-digit profit growth — if not by this fiscal year ending May 31 1993 , then fiscal 1994 at latest . |
| 20 | If Harrods had n't in this ridiculous way offered you a credit card , no crime would have been committed . |
| 21 | She certainly was n't in this forbidding place by choice . |