Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it not " in BNC.
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| 31 | Also , in today 's er Scotland on Sunday , gathered , they found it not just Edinburgh , but Britain as whole I think . |
| 32 | That 's where they store it not where they er play about with it . |
| 33 | and erm , you know , she , she obviously needs somebody else with her to make it not so obvious for her |
| 34 | Hence , the tender issue will not necessarily eliminate underpricing although substantially reducing it renders it not too popular with those who like to ‘ stag ’ new issues . |
| 35 | Bizat says he always jokes that he torched it not surprisingly , because much of the rehabilitation was made easier by the obligation to start from scratch , and the insurance produced £18.2 million . |
| 36 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 37 | He says it not because , like the right hon. Lady , he challenges his party , but because he is afraid of his party — and one could never accuse the right hon. Lady of that . |
| 38 | Greenaway rejects the conventional grammar of film , its reaction shots and implied points of view , but he replaces it not with his own idiom but with his slide library , though a film modelled on an art-historical lecture has no greater intrinsic claim to quality than one modelled on a promotional video , a newsreel or a travel brochure . |
| 39 | ‘ He hears it not now , but used to notice such things ’ ? |
| 40 | Taylor was not only himself firm with Dissenters , but in a sermon which he preached before the Irish Parliament in 1661 he urged it not to have too much respect for tender consciences . |
| 41 | She offered the apple to Adam — he took it not wishing to be rude |
| 42 | Karelius was still in Telnitz , which village , though he knew it not , was the only sector of the front line still in allied hands . |
| 43 | He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other . |
| 44 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 45 | He rejects it not because of what his experiments , or his introspections , tell him but because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ . |
| 46 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 47 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |