Example sentences of "[pron] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you — did you — love me so little , Neil , that you believe him without question , and me not at all ? ’ |
| 2 | We behaved this way in days of old empire so it surprises me not at all that Japan may now buy The Belfry , of Ryder Cup fame . |
| 3 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 4 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 5 | O rack me not to such a vast extent ; |
| 6 | The disintegration of space/time was still taking place ! — only this thought came to me not in any orderly way but as a confused recollection of a passage in Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar — |
| 7 | And was one of them not for that and my neck ? |
| 8 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 9 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 10 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 11 | Sadly , however , there will always be people from disadvantaged backgrounds and there will always be a few people — many of them not from disadvantaged backgrounds — with strong and perverted personalities , who , through macho perversity , gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism . |
| 12 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 13 | As far as Maxim could see nobody followed George through the fading damp light back to Albany , although there was no way to be sure and less way of knowing if he was followed himself not over such a short and crowded distance . |
| 14 | Could she have spoken to Jack so ‘ sincerely ’ had she not in some secret part believed what she said ? |
| 15 | ‘ I wo n't say that it 's for the school , Gowie , ’ he says , ‘ for I know that interests you not at all . ’ |
| 16 | Let me out unless the fires of Hell daunt you not at all ! |
| 17 | ‘ You not from round here , are you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yet we all without exception share a subtler and ambivalent genetic flaw , which expresses itself not in branching bones but in our very behaviour . |
| 19 | ‘ Something not of this world , clearly . ’ |
| 20 | Have we not in such circumstances arrived at that ‘ elective dictatorship ’ of which Lord Hailsham gave warning in 1977 : |
| 21 | cos there not for this board are they ? |
| 22 | It moved him not at all . |
| 23 | Apparently this one and only brush with city life impressed him not at all . |
| 24 | The revolution of 1399 affected him not at all . |
| 25 | No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all . |
| 26 | The clothes , beautiful as they were , interested her not at all . |
| 27 | The huge fire roaring in the hall beyond the small entrance chamber warmed her not at all . |
| 28 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 29 | Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’ |
| 30 | Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered . |