Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | They gave me food with stones and yak dung , but it was still not enough and they put it in a urine container . |
2 | ‘ It is not enough and you know it ! ’ |
3 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
4 | But not only that I mean it 's New Year 's Eve , everybody else is bloody getting drunk and enjoying themselves and you 're stuck doing the bloody bar . |
5 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
6 | Not just when we find it suitable . |
7 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
8 | ‘ It 's not over until we say it 's over , ’ said Karen Beckwith . |
9 | It also depends on the sun — a south-facing window will add more heat than it loses , winter or summer , though not always when you want it . |
10 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
11 | It now bore a long yellow blister , fag shaped and red round the edges , but there was still no pain , not even when I pressed it . |
12 | Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case . |
13 | What I tomorrow and not here because they forward it on to us . |
14 | and it 's a , an old fashioned music hall , more often than not well when we went it was a pantomime but the first part of the evening was an o a music hall |
15 | keep that hand ready otherwise you 'll discover that it 's not there when you want it , use it , OK |
16 | Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened . |
17 | For instance , there is usually a starting assumption that individuals make history , at least by the sum of their actions and even if not quite as they intended it to be . |
18 | That 's not quite as I remember it , Melissa thought , but let the inaccuracy pass unchallenged . |
19 | On the personal computer business , Platt said the company is ‘ gaining a lot of recognition ’ in what he called a ‘ ruthless ’ business , adding that cost-cutting had improved profitability , ‘ but it is not quite where we want it to be . ’ |
20 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
21 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
22 | Well it wo n't even if you inject it because , how |
23 | They were n't there when I opened it . |
24 | We thank Flaubert for picking it up ; in a sense , the irony was n't there until he observed it . |
25 | I did n't either and he knew it . |