Example sentences of "[be] not [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 2 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 3 | It was pitch black under the overhanging branches and it was n't until he reached the gate of Dobbs ' field that he was able , at last , to distinguish the shapes of the trees , and Dobbs and the wall by the churchyard . |
| 4 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't as he pretended the desire |