Example sentences of "to [pron] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 2 | There is no one else can remember except you Wilson Mrs Browning says to me not even Robert , and it is true . |
| 3 | Well how do we feel , it seems to me not exactly consensus on this , this issue ? |
| 4 | The ‘ white ’ of the sky and clouds appears to me not as pure white , but as a very pale tone , so I start with a wash of cadmium orange fading out from the horizon upwards . |
| 5 | She is plainest to me not quite dressed , in white bodice and petticoat , her arms and shoulders rounded and creamy smooth . |
| 6 | One of ‘ I 's kids came up to me not long after and said , ‘ You 're a lemon ’ . |
| 7 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 8 | Your word speaks powerfully to me not only of your love but of your will . |
| 9 | There it issues in a way which seems to me not only acceptable but poetically extremely valuable . |
| 10 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 11 | Because of this the ‘ selling ’ of the idea to someone not yet fully mature is likely to be a workable relationship . |
| 12 | Talking about your worries to someone not directly involved will help you to express your feelings and come to terms with your previous experiences . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I want you to call a courier and sort out a couple of juicy documents to somebody not too far away , but it does n't matter who . |
| 14 | Defenders of the scale of British commitments , then and more recently , have thus been able to ignore the extent to which not only consumption but also production and productive efficiency were inhibited by the dollar shortage — both directly , by restricting currency available for imported capital equipment , and indirectly , by diverting domestic output of such equipment into dollar markets . |
| 15 | Though Berkeley 's interest in the problem connects with his immaterialism , he is continuing a discussion to which not only the Aristotelians , but also Hobbes , Gassendi , and Locke , made contributions . |
| 16 | Though Berkeley 's interest in the problem connects with his immaterialism , he is continuing a discussion to which not only the Aristotelians , but also Hobbes , Gassendi , and Locke , made contributions . |
| 17 | I heard some months later that he was organising a Bible study in his quarters in North Africa to which not only fellow subalterns were coming but even such exalted members of the Army hierarchy as majors ! |
| 18 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 19 | He is then expected to transmit to you not merely the dry bones of well-accepted knowledge , but the living and growing body of his experience . |
| 20 | The unkind things your husband says to you not only make you feel bad but also make him feel better . |
| 21 | To that end Stockman , the director of the OMB and the principal architect of Reagan 's first budget , set about reducing the role of Congress to something not far removed from that of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 23 | At the in which he is involved and does have a part in shaping : these processes will appear to him not as broad generalities , but as a collection of micro-processes , the technicalities and particularities of daily life . |
| 24 | Morse held up his right hand , and spoke to her not ungently : |
| 25 | During the special day of Saraswati — goddess of wisdom and the arts — offerings are now made to her not only on our neighbour 's canvases and paint brushes , but also on our typewriters , cameras , and tape-recorders . |
| 26 | A woman who wanted a divorce because her husband made love to her not very often and not very well did n't get it . |
| 27 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 28 | They were to he not only the routes to culture and the intellect but the means to romance and sort of sex . |
| 29 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 30 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |