Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] not [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but I try not to think of those days . |
| 2 | " Well , " the McLaren girl said , " I guess the whole thing was kind of a bother , but I had n't thought of it that way . |
| 3 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 4 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 5 | I mean I guess I 've got as many inner tensions as most of us , but I do n't think of it in that way . |
| 6 | Otherwise elegant and beautiful theories have been rejected because they do n't agree with observation , but I do n't know of any major theory that has been advanced just on the basis of experiment . |
| 7 | But I did n't think of anything else since the first moment I laid eyes on you , either . ’ |
| 8 | But I did n't think of it . |
| 9 | ‘ There are always disagreements between committee members , Chief Superintendent , but I have n't heard of a club murder this century . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but you do n't think of that when you see them in bud , ’ Ianthe protested . |
| 11 | She should have got something to drink while she waited for the chemist but she had n't thought of it then . |
| 12 | We did n't like the fact that our male companions smelt like compost heaps , but we did n't dream of challenging them about it . |
| 13 | But he had n't heard of There 's another thing which Amanda suggested I try . |
| 14 | But he had n't known of Rose 's departure . |
| 15 | But he does n't speak of my uncle . |
| 16 | But he does not complain of her being a placid , ironing housewife . |
| 17 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 18 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 19 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 20 | Steel-Maitland explained that a working man was being selected at Bolton as the choice of the local party , on that very evening , but he did not approve of such specific commitment as the resolution suggested . |