Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |
| 2 | She knew that the fussy , frilly bridal gown did not suit her but had accepted it , as she had accepted so much else in her life , for her mother 's sake . |
| 3 | He could not know it but to talk of aborting Catherine , who was a living child , a person , was like coolly contemplating murder . |
| 4 | He shook his head doubtfully as if he did not believe me but did n't want to be harsh about saying so . |
| 5 | Then I did not understand it but wished I did . |
| 6 | The daughter of that cruel Damophilus " had done all she could to comfort the slaves who were beaten by her parents " : so the slaves not only did not touch her but escorted her " to the home of certain kinsmen in Catana " ( 34.39 ) . |
| 7 | It does not touch it but vibrates its wings : in response the ant opens its jaws , between which the mosquito pushes its proboscis and steals the honey dew . |
| 8 | The ants ( or termites ) forage for plant material that they do not digest themselves but make into compost on which they grow fungi . |
| 9 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 10 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 11 | He did not question her but took her arm and helped her along . |
| 12 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 13 | Ray Darby could not say which but confirmed that the note sent to Wainfleet was on paper identical to that used for the death threat . |
| 14 | Mahmoud did not say anything but started immediately down the slope . |
| 15 | There was and is no legal definition of privacy ; indeed there is no general agreement about what it is — like happiness we can not define it but recognise it when we have it , or more often we know when we feel we do not have it . |
| 16 | Realising that his visitor was no ordinary mortal , the watchman did not challenge him but jumping to his feet he kept his eyes fixed firmly on the intruder , hoping thereby to induce him to retire . |
| 17 | lady who does n't eat it but brings the bowl . |
| 18 | She did n't answer him but said : ‘ Her father 's so rich . |
| 19 | and then he charged it and er she if , she know , she could n't do anything but pay him |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't do anything but keep staring at it . |
| 21 | ‘ The criticism did n't do anything but boost sales , ’ he admits . |
| 22 | She did n't touch him but stood so close that she would be able to read every facial expression if he chose to lie to her . |
| 23 | Vigo did n't press him but poured a glass of Manzanilla for himself and sat down by the window . |
| 24 | He did n't leave me but brought the covers over us both and closed his body around mine in a grip that was painful , miraculous , unceasing . |
| 25 | He did n't tell me but became so agitated and excited , he left the book open with faint drops of candle grease on it . |
| 26 | and pick what they thought , was the best thing you could do , and then do n't , do n't tell you but get them made . |
| 27 | I did n't solve them but thinking about them was good exercise . |
| 28 | He did n't sing himself but seemed to inspire his colleagues ( Concerto Vocale ) with a feeling for nuance , simplicity of expression and nobility of projection in an extremely fine and responsive acoustic . |
| 29 | He buried his face in his mug , which did n't say anything but had a picture of a cat rolling a joint . |