Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come home to my dinner and I 've not a lot of time to spare . ’ |
| 2 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 3 | My famished brain kept throwing up the same line , and I had not the strength to control it , even though I knew it was wrong : Cymbeline Ghost-relic has returned from the Other Side : |
| 4 | and I had n't a clue what that was . |
| 5 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 6 | ‘ But by then I had been her slave nearly all my life and I had n't the courage or the guts to say no . |
| 7 | and I had n't the heart to tell |
| 8 | NOT and I repeat NOT the main carriage , as someone I know once did ! |
| 9 | John Wesley said : ‘ Give me a hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin , and desire nothing but God , and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen . |
| 10 | " I 've worked all my life , I 've never not worked , even if it was housework , and I have n't a penny in the bank . |
| 11 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |
| 12 | and I have n't a clue I |
| 13 | I 'm not pretty ; and I have n't the advantages of Jessie . ’ |
| 14 | Or he 'll be round here , stamping and yelling and I have n't the strength for it . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't get out and I have n't the money to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ The insurance is due for renewal at the beginning of March , and I have n't the foggiest idea what they 're worth now . |
| 17 | And I think not the kitchen , that 's on the rising main . |
| 18 | An and you do n't the tune to play , no ? |
| 19 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 20 | And she wasted not a moment . |
| 21 | Now if she re-dialled she would only get the apartment ringing incessantly ; the call before she had lost and she had n't a clue where its destination was . |
| 22 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 23 | He was brooding and she had n't the faintest doubt about why . |
| 24 | I think she thought Emily would be able to earn her living as a governess or lady 's companion , in the end , but she 's too idle and she has n't the wit . |
| 25 | Her eyes never left his , the woman 's , and she did not a damn thing to cross her legs or put her hands across her breasts . |
| 26 | The result was an exact compound of parts , no more , no less , and we had not the heart to continue the troublesome process for ourselves . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 28 | And they do n't the T Q M stuff 'll be er I do n't know what we 're gon na do with that . |
| 29 | ‘ And they have n't the strength for heavy digging . |
| 30 | And they have n't the faintest idea what we 're doing . |