Example sentences of "not [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You 've never done it so you wo n't bloody start now , it 's not worth all the hassle , for god sake , you know damn well it 's wrong oh there 's another load next door now , in a white van
2 Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it .
3 ‘ As for me , sir , ’ she said , ‘ I wo n't stay there alone , not for all the money in the bank ! ’
4 Not for all the hassle we get .
5 You wo n't get him stopping here , not for all the tea in China .
6 I would n't have this girl 's job — not for all the tea in China !
7 ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’
8 He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months .
9 He 's not like all the rest .
10 Would we like some smoked reindeer ( not that you can make good smoked meat now , not with all the air pollution , the acid rain and the like from the UK ) .
11 I do n't believe they could get lost coming round here not with all the back fields on fire .
12 She did n't look at him , not once , not in all the time it took to complete her task .
13 It 's not on all the time .
14 Sometimes you have access to a text , but not to all the information you would like about it .
15 Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me .
16 We get a glimpse of how history might seem to the most virtuous , and most pagan , of virtuous pagans — an odd effect in , but not at all a contradiction to ‘ a fundamentally religious and Catholic work ’ .
17 Gould is not at all a hard-sell .
18 Mr Andrew De Rosa , the theatre 's general manager , said : ‘ It was actually a very simple thing that went wrong : not at all a piece of technical wizardry .
19 Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature .
20 The Italianate villa in Washington , DC , which developed many Lincoln associations , was neat , warm , and human in scale , not at all the station of a great capital .
21 After the '70s the helicopter served the wealthy , but it was noisy , not at all the vehicle for mass travel .
22 You feel as though you must have become very bad , because the destructive thoughts that keep coming to you are most uncharacteristic and not at all the sod of thing you usually feel .
23 It was not at all the response she wanted , but Mrs Browning was again in full flow .
24 The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case .
25 This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case .
26 Duhm found the parallelism here " rather feeble " which is indeed the case if the ideal is synonymity , but not at all the case if other relationships between the lines of a couplet can exist .
27 As we shall now see , this is not at all the case .
28 The enclosed area is roughly triangular , not at all the square you might imagine , and is surprisingly big , about 1km ( over half a mile ) across its longest axis .
29 Not at all the kind of surroundings in which she would have expected to find the high-profile , socially-very-much-in-demand Nathan Bryce .
30 It hurt , they did n't feel anything much about it , and it was not at all the way they had thought it would be .
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