Example sentences of "he [verb] [not/n't] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 2 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 3 | Look , Pickles , he has n't two beans to rub together . |
| 4 | When Greenidge was finally caught behind , he had made 223 in nine and three-quarter hours , a phenomenal effort of concentration on a pitch of uneven bounce , for he gave not one chance throughout . |
| 5 | In addition to financial worries the job was not a pleasant one : in spite of many years of apparent conviviality , Dorothy realized after her father 's death that ‘ he had not one real friend ’ . |
| 6 | When , by the sheerest fluke , she 'd discovered he had not one other woman on the side but two , it drove her to near insanity . |
| 7 | He had not one doubt about what she meant and that was the end of any sort of conversation . |
| 8 | The Emperor Charlemagne ( 768–814 ) is said to have lamented to the leader of his court school , the York man Alcuin , that he had not twelve learned men like Jerome or Augustine . |
| 9 | He wrote not one memo about it but , by his estimate , as many as five , and sent them up the line . |