Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told it not , My wrath did grow . |
| 2 | In 93 , by contrast , the sense of isolation and suspicion of infidelity ( 92 ends with the line ‘ Thou mayst be false and yet I know it not ’ ) takes on that most bitter form , knowing self-deception : ‘ So shall I live supposing thou art true , /Like a deceivéd husband ’ — that is , a cuckold . |
| 3 | The fact , though , that I discovered it not in any yellowing vanity book of my own but among the vast volumes of newspaper clippings maintained by Dick Crossman was marginally encouraging . |
| 4 | ‘ I like it not , ’ Alianor told her . |
| 5 | ‘ I like it not at all , lass . |
| 6 | I find it not a little peculiar , however , that the Secretary of State chose to combine his statement on the deaths of the two young men whose duties involved the care of the sick in this hospital with a statement on the death of a car thief . |
| 7 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |
| 8 | Together , you would both be in danger — I doubt it not . |
| 9 | ‘ However , on this occasion I thought it not unreasonable to take a risk . |
| 10 | Oh yes I did it not long ago . |
| 11 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 12 | I recommend it not only for its excellent chapter on 17th century siege warfare , but also for the many clues it throws up en passant about where you might begin searching if you know of , or read about , a siege in your locality that is not in the book 's contents list . |
| 13 | Ye know it not , and ye have not been there any more than we ’ . |
| 14 | There would also have been no organization to employ me had it not been for our foresisters at the turn of the century . |
| 15 | she 'll only get a taxi , if er , she thinks it not viable , but er , it , it to me , it just seems not buggering about , but |
| 16 | If you want it not to work use the slash B Okay slash B and that 's it . |
| 17 | no , its just in the air , I mean , if its going around you do n't want to catch it , you catch it not going out any where , and the milkman probably , yeah |
| 18 | If you like it not , big brother , you have no need to speak with her . ’ |
| 19 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |
| 20 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 21 | But she does it not by English wit ( though there is wit here too ) but by Pakistani poetry . |
| 22 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
| 23 | We know that if you are born with genius , labour is unnecessary ; if you have it not , labour is in vain ; genius is all in all . |
| 24 | We owe it not only to the people of Oxford but to those of Birmingham , Cardiff , Elswick , and even of rural Shropshire who have suffered . |
| 25 | Now we know it not a chicken factory , it 's not the Farm , it 's not Farm , it 's not Park or Pond , or the arboretum or Hill . |
| 26 | The important element of them all is undoubtedly the dishonest appropriation of another person 's property — the treating of ‘ tuum ’ as ‘ meum ; ’ and we think it not only logical , but right in principle , to make this the central element of the offence . |
| 27 | We take it not because it was what we wanted , but because it is there . |
| 28 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 29 | We need it not only to breathe but to protect us . |
| 30 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |