Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's not clear why he went absent without leave from the HMS Gloucester from it 's position off the Isle of Man . |
| 2 | This particularly applied in the hundred or so religious houses of royal foundation but by the early fourteenth century the king was extending the custom to the newly elect of other institutions ; not less frequently he requested a corrody ( or board and lodging ) for an ageing royal clerk or household servant . |
| 3 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 4 | They 're probably not so deep you see as the other ones that side |
| 5 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |
| 6 | Patting and spanking ( but not so hard you draw blood ) |
| 7 | Not long ago we reported a case where a child died of fright caused by the approach of a Police officer in Uniform . |
| 8 | One morning not long ago he saw a fox walking past this same window . |
| 9 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 10 | Not long ago I thought that this date did n't concern me or Palestinian women in general ’ . |
| 11 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 12 | Not long afterwards he felt the wash slopping against the jetty . |
| 13 | Sure enough , not long afterwards she heard the first faint sounds of pursuit . |
| 14 | Not long afterwards she left the cabin , and Edward returned to his bunk to wait for the ship to sail , to take him back to Sweden . |
| 15 | I wanted to make sure they were long enough , and I went and started at Christmas , and I , er , this is so gross , and I just felt the scummiest thing , it was sort of , it 's not exactly how you wan na feel just before you get married , and then I went and had my legs shaved er waxed . |
| 16 | Not not there I agree , no . |
| 17 | Underlying Plekhanov 's argument is the central idea that , in order to explain a social phenomenon , one must understand not just why it did ( or does ) in fact occur , but why it would have happened even in the absence of the particular beliefs and actions that caused it . |
| 18 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 19 | Er on the sand at Grimness Now there 's hardly any sand there then , you had difficulty finding a patch , not not like where you 've the huge area now at the Barrier And so er I I I know that in the Hope they had a bigger one , and I believe in the Wyvell area they had one as well , you see ? |
| 20 | Not far away I caught , from the corner of my eye , the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks . |
| 21 | No well not as far we 've we 've found . |
| 22 | Well what what do you mean what do people think they 're not out there they 've all gone flipping Sunday shopping . |
| 23 | Even sad wankers like you , ’ he informs us before launching into ‘ Karaoke Queen ’ and posing his way through the three-minute Buzzcock guitar pile-ups and singalongs of ‘ Indeed You Aaaagh ’ , and ‘ I 'm In Luff ’ ( its not really how you spell the song titles , it 's the way he tells ‘ em ) . |
| 24 | not really long you get talking to somebody and |
| 25 | Took him ages did n't it to get his flat and it 's not even where he wants to go . |
| 26 | ‘ Not even how you came to follow such a man ? ’ |
| 27 | but when she 's not there then I have real problems . |
| 28 | not , not everywhere though they 've got water on tap , but quite a few places |
| 29 | Well , in the short term things were not quite how I imagined . |
| 30 | ‘ And everything 's just not quite how I expected it . |