Example sentences of "i [vb base] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 2 | for anything , I mean not just |
| 3 | I mean not just trying but if you if you get chosen to play the violin it means practising and practising and staying with it so that you become a good violin player . |
| 4 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 5 | I mean not even Russia and they 're well behind the times |
| 6 | I mean not brilliantly but she 's a well tasty bitch whoever does it . |
| 7 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 8 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 9 | Yeah , that females are there to do their deed for the species or the race or whatever an and er and indeed I mean not so long ago you know in our own country I mean |
| 10 | I have n't got the time nor the energy , I mean not so much |
| 11 | " I fear not more than two or three hundred . " |
| 12 | Iago can take a stand with every appearance of confidence : Yet from that firm-sounding position he lapses into uncertainty — ‘ I speak not yet of proof ’ ( ironically true ! ) — but an uncertainty that suggests far more than it states , with its rash of words for perception and deception ( ‘ look ’ , ‘ observe ’ , ‘ wear your eye thus ’ , ‘ not … secure ’ , ‘ abused ’ , ‘ look ’ , ‘ know ’ , ‘ see … pranks ’ , ‘ show ’ , ‘ conscience ’ , ‘ keep't unknown ’ ) . |
| 13 | I speak not only of what I have seen , but of what I have read in your labour statistics . |
| 14 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 15 | I said , well I hope not anyway , I says er , if you do I shall have a go at you . |
| 16 | do n't think you become entirely vulnerable just because you age , I hope not anyway |
| 17 | I hope not anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope not either , Pip , ’ he whispered back . |
| 19 | " It 's not your worry , Mavis , " I said , I hope not rudely . |
| 20 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 21 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
| 22 | ‘ I know not why he troubled — keeping us both standing about catching our death of cold ! ’ |
| 23 | Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle , I uplifted myself upon the pillows , and , peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber , hearkened — I know not why , except that an instinctive spirit prompted me — to certain low and indefinite sounds which came , through the pauses of the storm , at long intervals , I knew not whence . |
| 24 | What a world you might open up to me … yet all we ever speak of together is guilt and death , I know not why . |
| 25 | I would rather do that than run I know not where . |
| 26 | ‘ There is much to say and I know not where to begin . |
| 27 | I know not where he will bestow a kirk to more advantage … ’ |
| 28 | That 's right , no , yes , I know not far from where we live really |
| 29 | On the accession of Henry Tudor , the Shepherd Lord , as the young Clifford was known , was given back his lands and his faithful retainer knighted at his request ; ‘ I am but a simple man , Your Majesty , and I know not how I should be styled , ’ the good servant protested . |
| 30 | I know not how long he will do so . |