Example sentences of "not [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 2 | ‘ They do things for the fell of it and not for some kind of career motive . |
| 3 | Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life . |
| 4 | For all that , I could not for some days quite bring myself to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday . |
| 5 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 6 | To cut a long story short , Agassi won , I skimmed my fingers raw by smoothing off mortar without gloves , but by six that evening — there was a definitely a pond where before there had been none … well , not for some years , anyway . |
| 7 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 8 | ‘ Not for some people , I suppose , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class . |
| 10 | Not for some weeks anyway I fancy . ’ |
| 11 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 12 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 15 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 16 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 17 | ‘ Not for some time , Chieh Hsia . |
| 18 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 19 | Not like some folk . |
| 20 | You know I thought when she explained it to me , not like some people think it 's dirty , I thought it was wonderful . |
| 21 | ‘ He was trying very hard , not like some people these days who simply never bother . |
| 22 | This young lady has got her act together , not like some people who keep goats , who think that it is easy . |
| 23 | Not like some people she 'd known . |
| 24 | Not like some people are a bit bored but |
| 25 | It is like a mighty river , not like some sort of psychedelic light show . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not like some men who ca n't do it with a woman unless they feel emotionally involved with her . |
| 27 | Three years before , he had told Bonamy Dobrée that he was reluctant to attend Criterion dinners , and he was becoming slipshod in his editing — he printed a review , for example , which criticized John Lehmann for not including some choruses from Murder in the Cathedral in a new anthology , when he himself had forbade their inclusion . |
| 28 | Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ? |
| 29 | … and not with some fish |
| 30 | It is disappointing that , although there is an internationally recognized symbol for information ( the small letter ‘ i ’ ) , this could not in some way find itself incorporated in either of these logos . |