Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 2 | She could hear the rush of water , but it seemed to come not from one point but from all around her . |
| 3 | Later , Robertson revealed that he 'd clashed not with Thomas but John Hughes , the Falkirk defender . |
| 4 | I thought we 'd agreed not to … ’ |
| 5 | In practice the student endeavoured to respond not to the aggression but to the idea that this big , angry and intimidating young man was probably the more frightened of the two of them . |
| 6 | Over the following days , however , I came to learn not to be surprised by such remarks from my employer , and would smile in the correct manner whenever I detected the bantering tone in his voice . |
| 7 | Through our interpreter , Christine , he said , ‘ I used to have many more mementoes from my naval career , but the British ’ — he seemed to speak not of us but of some distant tribe — ‘ looted them . ’ |
| 8 | The material which Ivanov accumulated and interpreted came not from closeted sources but from publicly available journals , technical newspapers and magazines , and house publications such as British Aerospace News . |
| 9 | For one thing , although she was a distraction , she did try not to be . |
| 10 | He DID ask not to be selected for future B team games after being pulled off in last April 's second-string clash with the CIS . |
| 11 | He had come not from his own No. 2 dressing-room but from the floor above . |
| 12 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 13 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 14 | Racial nationalists saw the Jews in Manichean terms : they were the ultimate enemy , an anti-race derived from the mixing of incompatible elements and which had originated not in Palestine , but in the Khazar empire of southern Russia . |
| 15 | Miss Mates had said not to dawdle , but surely she would n't mind McAllister having a little rest and a long , cool drink ? |
| 16 | In 1958 the appeal to which de Gaulle responded came not from the " eternal fatherland " submerged by foreign forces but from the European settlers and the French army in Algeria , elements of which were in open insurrection against the legal , democratic government . |
| 17 | But Conran had decided not to soft-pedal in the US and had made up his mind to make a big splash immediately , which required large investments which it took years to recoup . |
| 18 | The man had her address and was going to write , but by the time he 'd got home had decided not to . |
| 19 | The two species treated each other with the distant friendliness of creatures who could , at a pinch , eat one another but had decided not to . |
| 20 | And she had promised not to . |
| 21 | The earlier traditions had focused not on experience as the key element in mind , but on intellect and thought ; it was this that made mind special and different from anything physical . |
| 22 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 23 | COMICAL ’ and ‘ absurd ’ was how Jean-Paul Rappeneau greeted the news that the Oscar for the best foreign film had gone not to his ‘ Cyrano de Bergerac ’ , which had received five nominations , but to a Turkish-speaking Swiss film , ‘ Journey of Hope ’ . |
| 24 | Adam had tried not to look but now he could not help looking . |
| 25 | However I think it 's important to stress that right from the early days of the conflict we had determined not to be involved in providing large scale emergency relief . |
| 26 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 27 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 28 | Robert Boyle once said that one of the reasons why he had chosen not to be ordained was to preempt the criticism that his pious remarks about nature merely reflected a vested interest . |
| 29 | It was true that Mrs Maugham 's moral fervour had had slightly more edge in the days before she herself acquired a television set , but even now she managed to retain sufficient cause for indignation , and the quality of her feeling for Mrs Hanney had changed not at all , though her attacks had been somewhat restricted in scope . |
| 30 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |