Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] it 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 | He could not know it but to talk of aborting Catherine , who was a living child , a person , was like coolly contemplating murder . |
| 3 | Then I did not understand it but wished I did . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | lady who does n't eat it but brings the bowl . |