Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's what I said to him , why not yours he only just cut it , that couple of grandsons they 've all done it all up |
| 2 | In my view legal process embodies some properties which tend to increase the law 's trustworthiness as a moral guide although not one which simply incorporates the moral consensus of ordinary life with the rules of the polity . |
| 3 | Thus , it is argued , care of the elderly is a responsibility which should be shared by all , and not one which solely involves statutory services . |
| 4 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |
| 5 | Rule-bending is not something which only poets do . |
| 6 | But the handing over of the letter was not something she necessarily expected , it was simply something she saw . |
| 7 | But I suggested too that the resolution — this resolution — was something that Joyce saw and wrote , not something he yet new . |
| 8 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 9 | ‘ It was dreadful and not something I ever imagined could happen in a British hospital . ’ |
| 10 | But is this not something you just have to put up with if you join the Army ? |
| 11 | It 's not something you ever get over , and I do n't really want to get over it . |
| 12 | ‘ But not anybody who actually knows what happened . ’ |
| 13 | But — please believe me ! — it was not he who actually stole the one … or murdered the other . |
| 14 | It is equally important to stress also that law is not whatever you please , nor what you would like it to be . |
| 15 | Pocock 's method of ‘ shifting the belly band ’ or adjusting the bridle link position was not what we currently accept as a 2-line system.That described by J.Woodbridge Davis in Aeronautics of August 1894 for his method of steering a life-saving device undoubtedly was a progenitor of what we use today . |
| 16 | He been up to something but it not what they after . ’ |
| 17 | Though apparently quite spry , the old men 's memories are not what they once were . |
| 18 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 19 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 20 | It was what people believed their interests to be , not what they actually were , that determined their actions . |
| 21 | But when people use the word ‘ chemicals ’ that is not what they usually mean . |
| 22 | That 's right , and until he does that , until he does , as it were , grasp the mettle and begin to express his purposes , his procedures , directly to the computer , he will always be at the risk that what gets expressed is not what he quite wanted , just a little bit different , he and he alone , is the person who knows what the company purposes are . |
| 23 | It 's not what you normally do , is it ? |
| 24 | You always get trouble with them in psychological tests , cos you either use terms which nobody knows what they mean , or you use terms which people have meanings for and that 's not what you actually mean by them . |
| 25 | Er , specific functional areas , not what you actually do in other words . |
| 26 | It 's the words they 're interested in , not what you actually say and the |
| 27 | yeah , but I 'm saying what you could have , not what you bloody want , you |
| 28 | It 's not what I usually do . |
| 29 | I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do . |
| 30 | The Church of England was not what it once was ; but neither was the Conservative Party . |