Example sentences of "not just [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such knowledge would be useful not just to enable us to forecast when the revolution might happen , but also in helping us to know how to make choices between different versions of a particular technology , and how to organise work to operate that technology . |
| 2 | Group pick up is very handy , if you 're with a large bunch of people in a large office , you can get together and say , ‘ Right , why do n't we answer everybody 's telephones if they 're not there , let's not just leave them ringing ’ , Okay , so you get together and you ask me and say , ‘ Right , this , this , this , this extension ’ , it could be up to 40 extensions , ‘ We all want to be in the same group pick up ’ , so what happens is the phone rings , but another one rings . |
| 3 | Moreover , their use of their disparate conceptions does not just lead them to give contradictory answers to common questions such as ‘ Were Athenian slaves a class or nut ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why not just let me take my chance ? |
| 5 | Who not just let him enjoy himself ? " |
| 6 | I think it 's quite legitimate for this Committee to take that twenty thousand because it 's there , and to say to itself , post budget we will have to look at the whole of the areas covered by budget protection to find the replicated twenty thousands in future years , and not just expect it to come from registration . |
| 7 | Why not just leave it to rot ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why can it not just say we 've landed ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't just pretend it has n't happened . ’ |
| 10 | Candy would pounce on that like a terrier , demanding to know why she did n't just tell him to get lost . |
| 11 | ‘ If there is someone alive , we ca n't just leave them to die . ’ |
| 12 | Keeping fit does n't just make you feel better — it has real health benefits , too . |
| 13 | And if you 've got a c country 's stamps they collect the whole lot , you know , they do n't just collect they collect the whole range all in one f And she 'd done this with her furniture . |
| 14 | I would n't just use it to grab grab grab with . |
| 15 | He might kill me , but he could n't just let me die . |
| 16 | Surely they could n't just let her go at the end of the three years ? |
| 17 | Fernando Serra loved her and would n't just let her disappear out of his life forever . |
| 18 | " I did n't just let her send me to bed — I wanted to go to bed . " |
| 19 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
| 20 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 21 | Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here |
| 22 | You ca n't just let him get away with it , Folly . |
| 23 | ‘ How do you know she did n't just let him die , knowing he belonged to me ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't just let you go . ’ |
| 25 | We ca n't just let it disintegrate into the dust . ’ |
| 26 | If a chimney was on fire , you could n't just let it burn away . |
| 27 | I could n't just have them standing at the back . |
| 28 | They did n't just say you know , er er er |