Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The halls were hardly respectable and they allowed ‘ young bucks ’ to escape for a while to an alternative world that offered not only contact with the masses , humour , and song but also drink , conviviality , and sexual opportunity . |
| 2 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 3 | Althusser argues that Marx 's intervention did not merely amount to the historicization of the formal categories of the classical economists . |
| 4 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 5 | But did n't there have to be something out there , just to witness , just to know ? |
| 6 | ‘ So he had n't much fight in him ? ’ |