Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pers pn] all " in BNC.

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1 Many of the old cases could indeed be subsumed within the new doctrine , but it does not cover them all .
2 While the private person/other distinction accounts for most of the variance , it does not explain it all .
3 ‘ We 'll not build it all at once , but we 'll allow space for it .
4 We can not explore them all .
5 The historian must first personally select the facts that he presents in his narrative because he can not include them all .
6 She realised that even the keepers of the secrets did not know them all .
7 I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target .
8 In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough .
9 Of course , the Government can not do it all alone .
10 Oh well there are four of them there so why not give them all and I 'll cut this pizza into
11 I dampen more towels and scrub the whole of my legs and feet , though I can not remove it all , and much of it smears into my skin , giving it a pinkish tint .
12 Although IBM acknowledges that open systems should be able to use TCP/IP , Unix , Network File System , and X-server emulation at the desktop , Workstation One does not use them all .
13 It must be remembered , too , that plants which contain medicinally active substances often do not contain them all the time in all their parts .
14 And yet I would not lay it all on him — ’
15 Please do not judge us all by these ignorant officials .
16 Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school .
17 Cavalry did not have it all their own way .
18 But over that weekend , diesels did not have it all to themselves as the unique two coach Battery Electric Multiple Unit was diagrammed for three return trips .
19 However , the entertainers did not have it all their own way , as preachers such as Donald Soper , Will Sangster and Leslie Weatherhead also spoke there .
20 Boswell reveals another sliver of his biographical method by complaining of frustration that he can not take it all down .
21 Oh we Oh I suppose we were told about the war but being young and heedless we would not take it all in .
22 Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts .
23 We can not thank you all enough for the kind letters of support and assistance .
24 I feel I can not mention them all yet again , much as I should like to .
25 But you could not blame it all on the place or on the drugs scene .
26 Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all .
27 A source might not tell us all we would like to know ; a document may sometimes be biased — but these sources are still the only direct evidence we have , and the historian has to learn to use them effectively .
28 Even the area down at the riverside would not hold them all , so that the legions had to make various other encampments , scattered wherever there was suitable ground .
29 Thus criminal laws against murder , rape , robbery , and assault do protect us all , but they do not protect us all equally .
30 I was really afraid I 'd not get it all down , and all the time he was listening out for me .
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