Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not for that hapless lad sleeping in a narrow stone cell at this moment . |
| 2 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 3 | Well not after that little escapade , nor would I . |
| 4 | In the 1890s the atmosphere was not of that settled calm with which it was credited by later and even more anxious generations . |
| 5 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 6 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 7 | The lights came up and we were not in that magic world beyond the screen but back in the familiar tawdry surroundings of Sneinton , Notts . |
| 8 | As long as it 's not in that green box it does n't , they have been to check on us I mean |
| 9 | The genealogical trigger determining the numbers involved , the extensiveness of the quarrel , is thus the branching of the tree through brotherhood : by tracing the extent of obligation to two brothers ( rather than to their father ) each disputant secures the maximum of supporters who owe him loyalty and who do not in that particular instance owe loyalty to the other side . |
| 10 | I 'm so self reliant that I if I was going o do anything it 'd have to be me that would do it , for the simple reason I could n't trust anybody else , not in that particular thing anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 12 | Not since that fateful mission in Honduras . |
| 13 | It occurred to him that he had not worn his best clothes for many weeks ; not since that confusing afternoon when some of Buddie 's friends had rushed through the house carrying boxes , cases and sacks that must not be discovered when the police came to search the place . |
| 14 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 15 | Yeah but you 're not at that certain age ? |
| 16 | Well not , not at that short notice . |
| 17 | If it were n't for that bloody fire , you 'd never ‘ a ’ brought that damned woman and her brats to this house . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars ! |