Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [verb] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 2 | When , by the sheerest fluke , she 'd discovered he had not one other woman on the side but two , it drove her to near insanity . |
| 3 | ‘ But you do realize I have n't much capital ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Thing did say they do n't all grow to twelve feet , ’ said Angalo , in the silence . |
| 5 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |