Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kexby village , strung out along the main road , consists mainly of 19th and 20th century houses , but Manor Farm which stands not far from the bridge is an 18th century building . |
| 2 | Seven million gloomy conifers , acres of heavy , sagging rhododendrons all surrounding a monstrosity of a building which contains not one single item of any lasting or significant aesthetic merit . |
| 3 | She lives not far from here , in Alès . |
| 4 | I came to visit my sister Gwen ; she lives not far from here . ’ |
| 5 | Israel itself has not forsworn nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | She has not double-glazed the house in order to preserve its architectural integrity . |
| 7 | She has n't many other pleasures . |
| 8 | What she has n't live with him ? |
| 9 | ‘ She 's always talking about going to see her nephew and his children , but she 's never gone and it 's only because she has n't enough money for the ticket . ’ |
| 10 | If she wants to fight on she 'll have to pay and she says she has n't enough money . |
| 11 | She has n't three lights on tonight . |
| 12 | ‘ She rings up and complains to James that she has n't any money and she wants this and she wants that . |
| 13 | Sometimes a clean break just wo n't work , where , for instance , there is n't any capital sum available for you to pay your wife and she has n't any job prospects ; then you may be saddled with having to fork out ‘ periodic payments ’ — the English term for alimony . |
| 14 | She has n't any friends , except one who is bad for her , and she wo n't mix with other young people . |
| 15 | She has n't mistaken cans of cat food for other cans , either . |
| 16 | No , she says not , she says not all men but she says a lot of them have inbred to them that they ca n't cry and and all that . |
| 17 | ( She pleads not guilty . ) |
| 18 | ‘ All right , I have an overdraft — but who does n't these days — and I am well within the agreed limit . |
| 19 | We had a glimpse of that with ‘ Nothing Compares 2 U ’ ( she cried , we cried too … ) and she does n't staunch the flow ( ‘ Can you really say you 're not in pain , like me ? ’ — ‘ Speech ’ ’ ) Do n't be fooled by the slight swagger of ‘ Why Do n't You Do Right ? ’ , the fragile , breathy innocence of her ‘ Bewitched , Bothered And Bewildered ’ , we 're just warming up to those where's-my-baby-blues of ‘ Black Coffee ’ . |
| 20 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
| 21 | She does n't any more . |
| 22 | who values not those laws |
| 23 | Also there are elements in these sculptures which can not properly be understood if one has not first considered the contemporary revolution in painting . |
| 24 | In some respects there seems not much room for argument about our conception of standard effects and their causal circumstances . |
| 25 | And in the end it offers not one way , as the ideologue or the mystic would claim , but rather an acceptance that diversity is forever a fact of life . |
| 26 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 27 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 28 | ‘ It has been a great cause for concern in London , particularly when he lives not far from where the Anti-Terrorist Squad uncovered a quantity of Semtex explosives in an IRA dump . |
| 29 | Look , Pickles , he has n't two beans to rub together . |
| 30 | He has n't got any he 's got no erm he has n't hairy legs . |