Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pron] [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 2 | Not specifically other than obviously we do n't know at the moment |
| 3 | Once I 'd seen the recording of the race I knew , although perhaps I did n't want to admit it straight away . ’ |
| 4 | Life on the margins characterises the Christian church in advanced industrial societies , and more often than not we do not even notice it . |
| 5 | well you wan na do it sooner rather than later you do n't want to leave it , you wan na do it sort of , now , so that if you go to college or any thing you can start off with that name |
| 6 | We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found , ’ wrote Lt Col Stewart . |
| 7 | ‘ We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found , ’ concluded Lt Col Stewart 's statement . |
| 8 | Lt Col Stewart 's statement concluded : ‘ We must do whatever we can to bring the murderer to justice , although realistically I do not think he will ever be found . ’ |
| 9 | But now she knew the names of the victims , she knew who had found them , she knew that the door had been unlocked , she knew how they had died , although surely he had n't mentioned the slitting of throats . |
| 10 | He had been a year older than herself , almost painfully shy , but even then passionately interested in the plight of the working classes in Dublin , and determined to do something — although even he did n't know what — for them . |
| 11 | They 're ideologically sound , although sometimes they do n't look it , know what I mean ? |
| 12 | For Darwin , this estimate was embarrassingly short , although fortunately he did not take it too seriously . |
| 13 | Greg was saying , in falsetto imitation of her own tone — although again he had n't caught the ominous undercurrent to her words . |
| 14 | I mean I we I would I , you know , personally I think I prefer to do it myself than put th leave it up to them cos mostly they do n't know what they 're on about anyway . |
| 15 | Cos presumably they do n't expect anything like this , they 're just doing their work . |
| 16 | If only they had not let her go out that night . |
| 17 | If only they had n't become so friendly , he was sure he would have enjoyed having a relationship with her ; but he had a rule about not mixing sex with friendship . |
| 18 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 19 | If only they had n't taxed their tendons so fiercely … |
| 20 | If only they had n't interfered she might have been let off minute by minute her situation worsened . |
| 21 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 22 | ‘ We keep thinking ‘ If only they had n't ’ . |
| 23 | If only we had n't cut down those trees the view would be better . |
| 24 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 25 | You have a great movie here if only you had n't miscast the lead . ’ |
| 26 | I ca n't stop singing that now , if only you had n't of said that |
| 27 | If only I had n't had that last cup of hot chocolate . |
| 28 | ‘ If only I had n't called it off she might still be here . ’ |
| 29 | If only I had n't said this , that or the other . |
| 30 | ‘ Damn , if only I had n't had that wine and walked home — well , the man 's a fool . |