Example sentences of "[not/n't] that [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 2 | Not that they had to mind . |
| 3 | She told her she was having a relationship with Gerry , but not that they had started sleeping together . |
| 4 | Do n't see any reason why I should not that they 've had nothing wrong |
| 5 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 6 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 7 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |
| 8 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 9 | In fact , if the problem is set within the context of an evidently powerful late-tenth-century Danish monarchy , it is difficult to believe that Harald Bluetooth or his son could not have introduced a naval system had they wished , and when the concern about the country 's southern land defences is remembered , along with the importance that must also have been attached to protection from sea-borne attack , it might seem more likely than not that they did wish . |
| 10 | Not that they needed to hear what Mr Evans had to say because they had heard it before . |
| 11 | It 's not that we 've planned a compromise , it 's what has come naturally within the group . |
| 12 | Not that we 've seen one of them for miles . |
| 13 | ‘ Not that we 've got any retorts of that sort there ! |
| 14 | Not that we 've got anything against the group , you understand , but certain other guests would have ruffled our feathers , so it was in everyone 's best interests that we stayed away . |
| 15 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 16 | Not that we 've found it really matters , we 've been |
| 17 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 18 | Not that we 'd seen much of Mary lately . |
| 19 | We reckoned that we could probably deal with any nonsense from Mazzin , not that we wanted to waste our energies in a battle of nerves with him . |
| 20 | Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms . |
| 21 | I would agree that social scientists have probably helped to sustain the myth but not that we have created it : the power of social science is not that significant . |
| 22 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 23 | Not that I like walking around with music blasting anyway , I 'd rather listen to the birds . |
| 24 | Not that I 've seen anyone . |
| 25 | Not that I 've seen . |
| 26 | Not that I 've noticed . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that I 've heard . ’ |
| 28 | Not that I 've suffered , really . |
| 29 | One wrote that and then said , ‘ It 's not that I 've got anything against my husband , it 's just he 's pig ignorant . ’ ’ |
| 30 | Not that I 've got anything against them personally . |