Example sentences of "[pers pn] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 3 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 4 | Had she not already decided that five and a half years of girlhood dreams bore little resemblance to the harsh warrior beside her ? |
| 5 | Now how is a pensions regulator going to look at those thirty transactions , therefore are you not effectively saying that the pensions regulator may work in areas where pensions regulation actually works now . |
| 6 | Knowing what your rights may be worth in money terms will help you not only to decide whether or not to take legal action , if necessary , to recover the sums due to you , but also to assess the reasonableness of any ‘ termination package deal ’ offered to you and generally to plan ahead for the future . |
| 7 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 8 | oh , should , do you not much play when we 've finished |
| 9 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 10 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 11 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 12 | It not infrequently happens that ambiguous readings are related in such a way that in certain contexts one reading entails the other . |
| 13 | It not infrequently happens that an exactly appropriate lexical partner that would complete a paradigmatic relationship is missing , but a lexical item exists , with virtually the required meaning , but of the wrong syntactic category . |
| 14 | Does not that demonstrate that low taxation , low inflation and good industrial relations are the basis for strong investment , including inward investment ; and does it not also show that the future of this country is excellent under this Government ? |
| 15 | Is it not absolutely clear that the ’ next steps ’ agency approach of the 1980s proved extremely successful in improving accountability , promoting a better service to the public and giving agency employees greater job satisfaction ? |
| 16 | Is it not far fetched and fanciful to regard lay-offs and redundancies as cleverly disguised methods of electing to consume more leisure ? |
| 17 | More than this , it not only exemplifies but portrays artistic creativity in a stunning exposure of the human mind and its elaborate yet primal mechanism of imagination . |
| 18 | We need it not only to breathe but to protect us . |
| 19 | It starts to rain , and it not only rains but it pours . |
| 20 | After 22 months , does he not yet understand that sitting there crossing his fingers and closing his eyes will not bring recovery ? |
| 21 | Constance and her mum had laughed , so that he not merely feared but hated them . |
| 22 | It was a fate he not only accepted but embraced . |
| 23 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 24 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 25 | He not only believed that she would be a willing accessory to his two-timing Cavell , but that Cavell either would n't realise what was happening or would n't mind if she did . |
| 26 | He really believed in it : he not only thought that others should remain silent during his threadbare pontifications , but he actually believed they would benefit from them . |
| 27 | Paul is evidently referring to the Spirit when talking of this power , since he not only prays that the Spirit will reveal it to his readers , but he , in common with other New Testament writers , associates the Spirit with the resurrection of Christ from the dead ( I Tim . |
| 28 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
| 29 | He not only designed and tested his own planes but , for a time , held most of the air speed records as well as the land speed record . |
| 30 | Had he not better make that clear to both the Conservative and Labour Members who still believe that Britain could stay out of the developments that will take place in Europe ? |