Example sentences of "not [num] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 2 | ( 27 ) Not one of them dare support you . |
| 3 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 4 | Not one of them would be capable of surviving an hour in the alley-ways of East Yzordderrex , he thought , down by the harbour where even the cats had pimps . |
| 5 | Incredulity at my own stupidity almost made me laugh , for Nour would , without a shadow of a doubt , have many , many wives and not one of them would ever be happy . |
| 6 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 7 | Not one of them could be described as ordinary . |
| 8 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 9 | Because they 're not one of them will be two squares and one of them bill we be one and so you need to get used to working with them like that . |
| 10 | Nay , for that matter , if you can set Mrs. Belville a-talking not one of you shall care to open you lips except to say as she says … |
| 11 | And not one of us must say a word about what we have found . ’ |
| 12 | I sing in a band , from time to time , a woman 's band , sort of a makeshift bossa nova affair , though not one of us can play a thing and we always need help from the boys . |
| 13 | Not one of us can look away . |
| 14 | There ai n't one of 'em could punch their way out of a paper bag . ’ |