Example sentences of "not in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Locke defines them , they ‘ contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves , but are considered as dependences on , or affections of substances ’ . |
| 2 | There is not in them that sombre atmosphere of a mortal struggle which we find in the second part of Daniel . |
| 3 | Oh no , not in them days . |
| 4 | But the contact sheet she 'd taken from the office was not in her bag , not in any of the half dozen dead newspapers lying round the floor , not under any of the piles of flung-down clothes , not under the sofa , not in the bin . |
| 5 | Better still , she was only twenty-two , not in her bloody thirties . |
| 6 | There , I learned , the churchyard was closed to burials , although her ashes might be interred — not in her parents ' grave as I had asked — but in the church 's garden of remembrance . |
| 7 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 8 | She had to struggle to understand what she already knew about in her head , but not in her heart . |
| 9 | Rudolf Dreikurs has observed that encouragement implies faith in the child as she is , not in her potentiality . |
| 10 | ‘ You may see Lady Yolande , not , ’ he lifted a warning finger , ‘ not in her cabin ! |
| 11 | After leaving the potion laboratory , she soon discovered that Mildred was not in her room and set off to look all over the school where , of course , she did not find the missing pupil . |
| 12 | ‘ But not in her world . |
| 13 | ‘ She was always very quiet and withdrawn , ’ was all Aunt Lilian would say , when pressed , and perhaps her interest really was in the young man 's academic future , not in her own , or mine , because she continued to coach him by post until two days before my birth . |
| 14 | She could hear it , as if it were not in her chest but something outside herself . |
| 15 | Alice stood smiling , disappointed in him , if not in her own state ; she was still floating . |
| 16 | Her husband , also a compositor , died six years later leaving her with three young children , and she was obliged to go back to work ( at Macdonalds in London Road , not in her previous job at Morrison & Gibb ) until she was over 50 , by which time her children were all supporting themselves . |
| 17 | She says it is only because she knows when it 's not in her stars to be killed in a ditch . |
| 18 | Henrietta ( Hetty to her friends , of whom Liz was not one ) embarrassed her , she could never say why : she represented pain , failure , tedium , though not in her own person : somehow , magically , she managed to transfer these attributes to those with whom she conversed , while herself remaining poised and indeed complacent , secure of admiration . |
| 19 | Fräulein was not in her room but down at the party . |
| 20 | Regret was not in her compass . |
| 21 | Lili agreed with me , saying that a reddened nose did n't count as crying , not in her book . |
| 22 | She carried herself differently and in her attitude , if not in her appearance , she seemed about ten years older . |
| 23 | Uncharacteristically , Eva got to the platform only to find that her spectacles were not in her handbag . |
| 24 | His silly face , so meaningless and without awareness of danger , seemed translated into sense through his return to music , and his entire concentration on the rhythms of the jig — Nicandra felt exhausted and exasperated by the realization that it was not in her power to be either kind or cruel to Silly-Willie . |
| 25 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 26 | It was not in her character to be any of those things and she felt cheap and foolish , like a wicked child caught stealing . |
| 27 | It 's not in her blood , as dyke or Jew , to go looking for converts . |
| 28 | I am sorry that the hon. Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) is not in her place . |
| 29 | Its only significant concession to opponents of abortion was a clause which required parental notification in the case of young women under the age of 18 , although notification could be waived if a doctor concluded that it was not in her best interest . |
| 30 | Not in her business . |