Example sentences of "not a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 2 | Take Lao-Tse 's celebrated question : ‘ If when I was asleep I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly , how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man ? ’ |
| 3 | A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty — and , by which definition , a philosopher — dreamed he was a butterfly , and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher . |
| 4 | I 'm not a clerk thank you . |
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| 6 | ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’ |
| 7 | This is not a reason to avoid them for drama more than any other activity in school can help children find a mature approach to such topics . |
| 8 | Initially , they are stressful but that is not a reason to avoid them . |
| 9 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 10 | Not a dog to follow it down — |
| 11 | The only reality of the event had been her mother 's reaction , which was silent , grim , and grudging to the last ; not a tear did she shed , and after the funeral , as she turned away from the graveside and started to walk slowly through the cemetery mud she set her mouth in that prophetic way , and straightened her thick body , and then , as she passed a gravestone announcing that death is but a separation , she opened her mouth and said , " Well , he 's gone , and I ca n't say I 'm sorry . " |
| 12 | Not a squeak did we hear . |
| 13 | She was alone in this isolated house and not a soul knew she was here except that wretched Marie . |
| 14 | Oh look , come on , yeah Christmas lights are up not a lot mind you , a few bare bright bulbs . |
| 15 | Marion , there 's not a lass to match you in Mull . |
| 16 | Her hope of happiness was gone , all gone , and if she had to bear a little of the blame for not having told him immediately who she was , then surely that was not a thing to hang her with . |
| 17 | ‘ Enclosure like a Buonaparte let not a thing remain/ it levelled every bush and tree and levelled every hill/ and hung the moles for traitors — though the brook is running still/ it runs a naked stream cold and chill , ’ he proclaimed vehemently . |
| 18 | It 's not a purse love it 's for erm soap and you know toothbrushes and things like that . |
| 19 | as if he was n't a maniac keeping me prisoner here . |
| 20 | She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways . |
| 21 | ‘ So why has n't a man caught you ? ’ |
| 22 | why should n't a street do it . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't cut off a head , ’ said the executioner , ‘ if there is n't a body to cut it off from . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't a dog to give them to at the moment . |
| 25 | Sorry erm it is n't a BUS do you think ? |