Example sentences of "she [verb] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert 's mother Ann , 39 , was devastated when her son returned , accompanied by the police , and she realised not only what had happened , but what could have happened . |
| 2 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 3 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
| 4 | The Lady Jinneth went out riding alone this afternoon , and she has not yet come back . |
| 5 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 6 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 7 | Margaret Beckett , the other half of the Treasury team , is a stalwart of the press conference platform and the Labour politician most respected by the Conservatives , although she has not always inspired on the hustings . |
| 8 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 9 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 10 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 11 | In creating ‘ Passion ’ , she has not only documented the activities of BWCP but also provided ‘ an excellent introduction to the range and intensity of Blackwomen 's Creativity in Britain ’ |
| 12 | Like Snow White 's wicked stepmother , she has not only abandoned her adopted heir to the company of dwarves ; she lives in terror that he might yet be more admired and loved than she . |
| 13 | She has not only lost her husband but her father . |
| 14 | Second , she has not only cleaned up her act , she seems to have adopted a remarkably apt late twentieth-century camouflage : from Baltic peasant to stereotypical dyke 's delight is a transition not normally catered for in those women 's magazines that offer readers new looks for new lifestyles . |
| 15 | She has not only suffered the anguish of over a quarter of a century of separation from her husband , but has also experienced unending persecution at the hands of the regime , such as banishment , Imprisonment , torture and sustained harassment over a period of more than two decades . |
| 16 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 17 | Tom asked , with a touch of impatience , then added in an aside to Faye and Bill , ‘ See , she 's so impressed she has n't even heard me ! ’ |
| 18 | She has n't , she has n't even got them out of the bo , out the out of the bag yet . |
| 19 | She , she has n't even offered any help ? |
| 20 | She has n't even put seams on them . |
| 21 | But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere . |
| 22 | I can not stall her for ever , and soon she will grow suspicious , if she has n't already . |
| 23 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 24 | Maybe she has n't yet . |
| 25 | She has n't yet been told what I saw on the sonogram by the way . |
| 26 | Once or twice my mum has even gone into a light trance , and , though she has n't yet contacted anyone interesting , we have great hopes of her . |
| 27 | ‘ And … and she has n't yet ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That was seventeen years ago and she has n't as far as I know been seen or heard of since ; surely that adds up to a disappearance ? |
| 29 | " Jenny likes expressing herself on paper but she has n't so far , mentioned the date of her return . " |
| 30 | ‘ She has n't quite got it right , but if she wants to come round my flat … ’ |