Example sentences of "and not [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
2 | It had better be that and not him having another of his scenes . |
3 | It 's very hard to spend months in the archives , reading the papers of the people who spent so much of their lives fighting for this kind of thing , and not I think be rather affected by dedication and by the evidence that they amassed with such enormous difficulty , and by the way they kept coming back and fighting for it over and over again , and the free market argument by comparison lacks that kind of humanity I think . |
4 | It could n't possibly be … a frisson of relief as I realised it was crème fraiche and not you know what . |
5 | For had they ruled that a free pardon did quash a conviction , then Waddell 's defence of impeachment , i.e. that Meehan and not he had committed the crime , would have collapsed ; as it was it was greatly strengthened . |