Example sentences of "not [that] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that his mousey little wife was any match for her own looks and personality , Amanda thought contemptuously . |
| 2 | If Alice were marrying one of the Irish Guards on duty at Buckingham Palace today , she would probably comment , not that his life is ‘ terrible hard ’ ( though of course training is tough ) , but that it is terribly varied . |
| 3 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 4 | Not that his nephew Denis was in any better a mood as he chased his little women around the room . |
| 5 | Not that his age mattered to Ashi ; in Iran a tradition of arranged marriages meant that maturity in a man was something to be respected . |
| 6 | Not that his pursuers would be distracted from finding him by such petty secrecy . |
| 7 | Not that his system was susceptible to such discomforts , but he fancied himself an empathic soul . |
| 8 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |
| 9 | It was not that his plan of fighting from room to room was not working … on the contrary , it was working to perfection : every room they retired from was crammed with dead and dying sepoys . |
| 10 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 11 | Not that his cleverness was always recognized . |
| 12 | Not that his scepticism about the letters would last much longer , since Chief Inspector Golding was to travel to Wales today to interview Frank Griffith . |
| 13 | Not that his body was terribly stable . |
| 14 | Not that his name had been kept out exactly . |
| 15 | Not that his tautly muscled frame showed any sign of laxity , she admitted in silent acknowledgement . |