Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't got the time nor the energy , I mean not so much |
| 2 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 3 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 4 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |
| 5 | I do n't anyway this is just one of the highlights of what has been two marvellous days at the Mackeson meeting sponsored of course by Whitbread and the big race today is the fifty thousand pound Mackeson Gold Cup confirming fifteen runners over two and a half miles . |
| 6 | Well I think not so much about when Hastings was there . |
| 7 | I did not so much as flick a duster around the papers . |
| 8 | I did n't here that . |
| 9 | I did n't even same as they say going green or anything like that . |
| 10 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |
| 11 | I did n't very much . |
| 12 | And I 've not too many problems to report to you this evening either from British Rail who tell us that there 's a twenty three minute delay on the Manchester to Paddington service which was due in at Oxford at six twenty-four , ca n't quite do the sums there , but it is n't quite due in yet . |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't yet this morning . ’ |
| 14 | I have n't really much to add to Bob 's letter . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , I have n't very much time to spare . |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't so much as been outside the square , yet , ’ she said , longingly . |
| 17 | The breakfast dishes were n't even washed , though I have n't so many now as two daughters are away . |
| 18 | this prompted me to speculate not so much on what might be deployed in order to ask different questions from those addressed in the previous galleries . |
| 19 | Faithful be ye , I know well , and power ye have if ye list to keep them safe ; but if ye think I fear too much , yet beware ye fear not too little ! ’ |
| 20 | It 's a symbolic embarrassment to have man in a graveyard outside a church , not getting any sanctuary , especially when you consider not only that background you 've mentioned , Jesus himself actually said that he had nowhere to lay his head . |
| 21 | But you seem not so much angry , as succumbing to memories , drowning in them , leaving this world behind … |
| 22 | The seats , upholstered in dark red leather , held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey ; you did not so much travel as process . |
| 23 | And I put a pair of twos in so you did n't very much . |
| 24 | You do n't actually half it but you work it out , it 's two . |
| 25 | She did n't like it when Dot slipped in unseen and with Mr Brown gone off to college , she had n't so many people who would listen to her . |
| 26 | She had not before this night thought of the sheep in the bus shelter . |
| 27 | Well er grown in just in rotation you know working the land every five or six year rotation er and er you had not very much hay . |
| 28 | But she does n't so much now , cos she 's |
| 29 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |
| 30 | We do n't that much |