Example sentences of "[pers pn] not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I not a peace-loving man ? ’ |
| 2 | Am I not a good wife to you ? |
| 3 | ‘ I not a kid any more . |
| 4 | Am I not a dryad ? |
| 5 | It interests me not a little that Sheridan Le Fanu should have found in Dublin sufficient inspiration to write the story of a horrendous shark-like sorceress : Carmilla 's real name was , with appropriate euphony , Countess Karnstein , and when her grave was excavated , her body was found to float in many inches of blood . |
| 6 | It 's older translation , it 's translated as charity , in the prayer book which gives the idea of giving immediate assistance to me not a theoretical future when we 're talking about trade , but an immediate . |
| 7 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 8 | Not here , surely , among strangers : yet where now was she not a stranger ? |
| 9 | Was she not a thief ? |
| 10 | If you do that , 92p should give you not a punnet but a bucketful . |
| 11 | Are you not a friend of Roy Dunlop 's and were we not all together once in Vancouver ? ’ |
| 12 | Are you not a bowman ? ’ |
| 13 | The most important factor in planning your holiday is that you want every detail to be perfect for you not a holiday perfect for someone else . |
| 14 | He had n't quite understood this , and hastened to assure me , " You not a whore ! |
| 15 | Now , Lady Davers , see you not a difference between my marrying my mother 's beloved and deserving waiting maid and your marrying a sordid groom ? |
| 16 | Let me beat my beloved saucebox , are you not a little sullen ? |
| 17 | But first I must warn you that this evening I give you not a narrative . |
| 18 | " Are you or are you not a homosexual , Gordon ? " |
| 19 | ‘ If you bleed me — are you not a prick ? ’ |
| 20 | And since the blindness and brutality recorded in those accounts has in no wise disappeared from human society , have we not a crucified God still ? |
| 21 | She later confessed that she had seen in him not a budding genius , but only a ‘ little man ’ . |
| 22 | For the boy carried within him not a ball of wax , but an idea . |
| 23 | — he takes his Wife and Bairns with him , a Waggon the size of a Squatters Cabin and all such apparatus as will imcumber [ sic ] him not a little — he has never travelled in the Woods , never salted his rump Stakes [ sic ] with Gun Powder and how he will take to it , will be a ‘ sin to Crockett ’ . |
| 24 | The man had every caution given him not a minute before to be careful with the gun , but his time was come as his poor shipmates say and with that they console themselves … |
| 25 | COUNTESS : Art thou not a married wretch ? |
| 26 | And is it not a true bill , now as in 1918 ? |
| 27 | Such a stand might look principled , were it not a sham . |
| 28 | Is it not a shame for a Russian Marxist to adopt the point of view of an Armenian hen coop ? |
| 29 | Is it not a matter for scientists ? |
| 30 | Is it not a form of self desecration not to cultivate this primeval delight in flowers ? |