Example sentences of "fact [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I do not understand what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 2 | I know , because Eliot told me : he also disclosed , what he usually kept to himself , that after the poet had drunk himself to death , and hearing that his widow was in difficulties , he had provided liberal help , though whether she was aware of the fact I do not know . |
| 3 | Which he knows for a fact she does not spend on the child . |
| 4 | It is simply too expensive in resources to attempt to eliminate all risks of premature death , and in fact we do not do so . |
| 5 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 6 | The mechanisms that might be responsible for these effects are in need of fuller specification but the effort would perhaps not be worthwhile since in fact they do not account for the results to be explained . |
| 7 | In fact they did not speak French either , they spoke a sort of fractured German . |
| 8 | In fact they did not host another major ball until Christmas 1983 , by which time they had learned from their mistakes . |
| 9 | He is sufficient of a realist to concede at the end of his argument that in fact they did not support him , but supported the argument on behalf of the Attorney-General . |
| 10 | In fact it does not enter the picture at all in those cases where people die as a result of deliberate assault or murder . |
| 11 | For example , a horse that will not do something we may call ‘ stubborn ’ or ‘ pig-headed ’ , when in fact it does not know what we want . |
| 12 | In fact he did not do the work for which he was paid and , indeed , after December 1987 there was no record of any quarterly VAT returns whatsoever having been made . |
| 13 | In fact he did not ask us any questions at all , but read aloud from Shakespeare , waving his arms dramatically and enjoying the sound of his own voice . |
| 14 | In fact he did not fight the bye-election . |