Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often say to me do n't you get sick of eating ice cream working here … and I say not at all with the wonderful products we make |
| 2 | I referred not to this one but to the principle . |
| 3 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 4 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 5 | ‘ I know not for sure . |
| 6 | The position of a lessee after assignment towards his lessor in relation to the covenants in his lease is concluded in this court , and I doubt not in all courts , by the decision of Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 . |
| 7 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |
| 8 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 9 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
| 10 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 11 | I do not by any means place all my faith in so-called Urtext editions , but it is worth mentioning that the Lea Pocket Scores of Beethoven 's works were reprints of the nineteenth-century Breitkopf und Härtel collection edition . |
| 12 | A letter dated March 2nd already betrays some misgiving through its protestation : ‘ I do n't for one minute doubt about the fall of Verdun . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I find myself attracted to American ladies in a way I do n't to English ladies . |
| 14 | The Monty Python star recently said : ‘ I find myself attracted to American ladies in a way I do n't to English ladies — odd , is n't it ? ’ |
| 15 | " Enlightening , enlightening , " said Clelia , " I do n't at all like the sound of that word . |
| 16 | But I do n't at all mind saying what I think I should want done in the circumstances . |
| 17 | I do n't at this moment , envisage that the need for any further resources in this area . |
| 18 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |
| 19 | I wanted to gather teachers ' views and opinions , I did not in any way want to influence their responses . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 21 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 22 | It was like the sudden revelation of a pattern where none had been suspected , and I did n't at all care for it . |
| 23 | I did n't at any time actually offer it to her . ’ |
| 24 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 25 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 26 | I said Not with one man we ca n't , no . |
| 27 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 28 | I had not at that time ever been to India . |
| 29 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 30 | I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures . |