Example sentences of "not [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott .
2 Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott .
3 ‘ There was a war , not between us and the Lebanese , but between us and the Palestinians , who tried to conquer Lebanon and take Lebanon and occupy it .
4 Not between us . ’
5 Talking to me , not through me , recognizing
6 Not through me I 'm not .
7 With Twin Peaks , the fascination is in watching , with mounting incredulity , the parodic games of multiple genres and thoroughly cliched conventions , which are striking not through their revitalization of verisimilitude in new forms but through the unlikeliness and inappropriateness of their combination .
8 Some people have said that the N H S should be financed from the tax payer 's money and not through what is , it is n't quite a charity , but basically other means .
9 The persons whom they bring with them , however , are paid directly by the user organization and not through them .
10 Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization .
11 Society may not through its laws be able to protect the sufferers from addictive disease from the consequences of their addiction nor he able to protect itself from the consequences of their actions even if the law is applied universally to all addictive drugs including alcohol .
12 Not through your mouth , through your nose , anyway it must of righted itself , she 's still full of cold but you know , when you get that achy feeling cos she said it aches
13 of course , when you get one of those calls and you divert it back to the switchboard or divert it direct to when you put the phone down pick it up and dial zero , so you put another call through to headquarters community affairs and its not through us
14 Why is tha why is David involved in that all of a sudden , it 's not through us is it ?
15 As we have so much control in forming a horse 's habits it is up to us to teach it good ones ; and not through our own lack of thought or knowledge , or want of kindness and sensitivity , impair the horse ; or even worse , teach it such bad habits that its life will be a misery to itself or others .
16 Not through our study , certainly .
17 Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault .
18 Is it not through his agency that anyone makes the Christian confession ‘ Jesus is Lord ’ ( 1 Cor. 12:3 ) and is born again ( John 3:5 ) ?
19 Clara , when the idea was broached , declared instantly that it was not worth her while to ask her mother 's permission , whereupon the school embarrassingly said that if it were finance that were in question , then help might be forthcoming .
20 " Oui , " said Clara , thinking it not worth her while to draw the distinction .
21 She did not regain consciousness at any point ; it was almost , he thought bitterly , as if it were not worth her while to say goodbye to him .
22 It 's not worth me going , I 'll see how I feel , sit there snivelling always .
23 Prices are so low in the market because there is such a bumper crop that it is simply not worth them harvesting , as a result it is rational for them er just to leave the apples um , pears and what have you on , on the trees .
24 er t t to a degree which makes it not worth their while being in the business .
25 However , trainers are also pulling out , because the sums do not add up , it is not worth their while and quality is suffering .
26 Pop fans are being warned the tapes are poor quality and not worth their twelve pound price tag .
27 You can see for yourself it 's not worth anything . ’
28 Anna was brought to us when her life was not worth anything .
29 It was true I wanted to kiss her very much , but I felt that kiss was almost like a coin thrown to a poor common boy , and not worth anything .
30 Rain said : ‘ Tim , it 's a good story but it 's not worth anything to me because I already know about it . ’
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