Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 2 | It was important that she ring her parents to let them know not to expect her that day . |
| 3 | ‘ Those who took part in the sessions found it enjoyable and good fun , ’ commented Andrew , ‘ and although everyone has not yet managed to pack it in , the early feedback is encouraging . ’ |
| 4 | Budding engineers are going to face a situation where what they achieve practically receives the inadequate reward of a terminal examination which fails to let them demonstrate not only the full extent of their knowledge but also understanding of the processes involved . |
| 5 | She made me promise not to tell what had happened . |
| 6 | ‘ She made me promise not to ask . ’ |
| 7 | I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma . |
| 8 | Although having them has not made their lives any easier , they have got immense enjoyment from them and would not be without them . |
| 9 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 10 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 11 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 12 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 13 | I regret not being able to deal with the subject of community care policy as extensively as its importance deserves , although there is a general discussion in Chapter 3 . |
| 14 | NOT and I repeat NOT the main carriage , as someone I know once did ! |
| 15 | If he does , you will not , I repeat not , contact him in any way . |
| 16 | You see I 've not really got the same trouble with English , because well English is a written thing is n't it , |
| 17 | Mr Chairman er when we discussed this last time er I expressed the view that in fact er the county council had better things to do I 've not changed my mind erm since but I have been reminded that er when er the Roman Emperors er found ascension in the ranks when Roman Emperors found ascension in the ranks they provided bread and circuses and I have to say that I regard the two notices of motion which were placed in Mr notably fox hunting and this debate on V A T as bread and circuses . |
| 18 | I do n't do I 've not got time , I start reading and then it 's , it 's we 're doing something else |
| 19 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 20 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 21 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 22 | But Lord Zouch , President of the Council , who was no friend to the professional judges there , discounted the notion that they were taking bribes : ‘ I mean not money to any magistrate , ’ he remarked . |
| 23 | Well I mean not , not in the sense that |
| 24 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 25 | Not really no it 's I mean not |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , she takes , I mean not smack or anything . |
| 27 | But for the dressing-up ghosts it just about sends them crazy , after all that bother , finding the right clothes , and often arranging to carry their heads in funny places — I mean not on their necks — and then the lifer just does n't take any notice . |
| 28 | I mean not everybody 's got them . |
| 29 | I mean that just sounds like familiar you know , I mean not that |
| 30 | I mean not Bronze Age , or whatever , and a calf was eating the grass on the top as though — well , as though it did n't matter . ’ |