Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 're probably not so deep you see as the other ones that side |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Patting and spanking ( but not so hard you draw blood ) |
| 6 | Not long ago we reported a case where a child died of fright caused by the approach of a Police officer in Uniform . |
| 7 | One morning not long ago he saw a fox walking past this same window . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not long ago I thought that this date did n't concern me or Palestinian women in general ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not long afterwards he felt the wash slopping against the jetty . |
| 12 | Sure enough , not long afterwards she heard the first faint sounds of pursuit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not not there I agree , no . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No well not as far we 've we 've found . |
| 18 | Well what what do you mean what do people think they 're not out there they 've all gone flipping Sunday shopping . |
| 19 | not really long you get talking to somebody and |
| 20 | but when she 's not there then I have real problems . |
| 21 | not , not everywhere though they 've got water on tap , but quite a few places |
| 22 | What matters is not how long we spend in Committee , so that we can report those hours to people outside , but what we achieve in that time . |
| 23 | It is not how much we read , nor even what we understand in our heads , but receiving in the same spirit in which the scriptures were first written . |
| 24 | He must know it was not how much they earned that was important — not when they were insolvent — it was when they earned it that counted . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not how much it affected you , it 's the fact that you were affected at all , ’ he said , straightening himself up . |
| 26 | so you can do that with him , so if you 're not too well you know like |
| 27 | Not too soon I hope ! |
| 28 | It 's not very often we come . |
| 29 | Not very often you get owt off a businessman June . |
| 30 | Well he had a night off , it 's not very often he has a night off , so |