Example sentences of "they [verb] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They talk not of rural matters ( except of the possibilities of old barn conversions ) , but of stocks , shares , investments , and insurance . |
| 2 | The frontages were the work of the architects and they worked not in new styles but in revival styles — Gothic , classical , Renaissance , baroque — to comfort and reassure those concerned about the newness of it all . |
| 3 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |
| 4 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 5 | Both were so absorbed in their activities that when the float went down , they did not at first respond . |
| 6 | Rab looked at her glass , wine red as blood , for they did not in this place sell gin and tonic . |
| 7 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 8 | But they do n't , they do n't at all |
| 9 | If they do n't wriggle free of blame , they do n't in any case care . |
| 10 | If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate . |
| 11 | Logic suggests that 16 should be the age of consent for this conduct , too , but the CLRC took the view that young men of 16 and 17 need protection from this kind of behaviour , whereas they do not from other kinds of sexual contact . |
| 12 | Again , there are complex vertical linkages in the industry and , again , there is a block exemption which covers distribution arrangements within the industry , provided they remain within certain parameters ( which the European Community 's DGIV believe they do not in some respects ) . |
| 13 | However a word of warning : good as these books are for giving you techniques to help you remember strings of unrelated facts , numbers or words , they do not in any way show you how to train your memory to remember other facts in a different context . |
| 14 | Of the people they spoke not at all . |
| 15 | Well , yes now in fact we know they have not in that study . |
| 16 | You can tell how lively they are by the fact that they work not in great white north-lit drawing-offices , like the more fashionable and established groups , but in a few cramped rooms on the fourth floor of an Edwardian commercial block , above a tobacconist and an employment agency , mostly looking out on an airwell . |