Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will not properly put it on then . |
| 2 | If you are keeping very healthy and do become pregnant , the pregnancy will not necessarily make you more ill or encourage sickness . |
| 3 | Some applications for adjournment are made ex parte on filing written consent of all parties but reason for the adjournment is expected to be given , and the court may not necessarily grant it even if all parties consent . |
| 4 | At the age of twenty-eight she had awakened one morning to the realisation , clear as dawn , that to hope for things did not necessarily bring them about , that there was no earthly reason why she should be happy , healthy and husbanded . |
| 5 | Talking to people directly involved , such as your ex-boyfriend , will not necessarily help you any further . |
| 6 | It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle . |
| 7 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 8 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 9 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 10 | A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer 's true feelings on the matter , but once having sustained such a dismissal , I could not easily bring it up again . |
| 11 | Well , I might not just want it there . |
| 12 | When we need to forgive someone else we know we can not just forget it right away , but we can certainly say it is not on file against them any more . |
| 13 | So I can you not just stick it out till I ring Brian ? |
| 14 | One can not just dig it out of language as I thought once . ’ |
| 15 | Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case . |
| 16 | Critics of Darwin who quote that passage with which I started do not usually run it on . |
| 17 | They could not still want her now . |
| 18 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 19 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |
| 20 | If what Flynn said was even half true , they could not possibly spin it out until then . |
| 21 | It was as if a woman who thus lowered herself disowned her right to be considered a person , a soul ; as if it would be no sin to take advantage of her lust because one could not possibly soil her any further . |
| 22 | ‘ I have to admit it would not unduly burden him financially , ’ said Babcock . |
| 23 | The last part of this defence means that just because driving was impossible because of injury to him or damage to the vehicle , the court will not automatically find him not guilty . |
| 24 | Another survivor , who had no fewer than three sisters already in the trade , did not automatically follow them either . |
| 25 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 26 | And , if taxed by such as Sylvester , he probably would not now admit it in so many words . |
| 27 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 28 | Many of these depend on rather sophisticated biochemical arguments which do not really concern me here ; just two must suffice . |
| 29 | The principal faced with a troubled or disruptive child can not simply send him someplace else . |
| 30 | The calf was sold long ago , and she would not even recognize it now if it ambled into the yard . |