Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd be much happier knowing you and I were n't at the beck and call of such a man . ’ |
| 2 | I was not at the bottom of a cliff but at the top , looking down across another dusty plain four hundred feet below . |
| 3 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 4 | Oddly enough , I was not with the rest of the aircraft that were in the search ; in fact my station was offshore — not on the coast , or inshore — but quite some distance out in the Gulf . |
| 5 | I was not on an errand , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 6 | DeFries was not on the road , I was not on the road and I think David began to feel very abandoned by this company MainMan . |
| 7 | I admit that I was not on the Committee and that I am on a steeply rising part of the learning curve , but I shall reach the asymptote fairly soon . |
| 8 | Unlike the Minister , I am not sorry that I was not on the Committee ; I am pleased that I missed it . |
| 9 | Of course I was not in a position to contradict her . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was not in the position to discuss Secret Service matters with you , Rober' . |
| 11 | And I was not in the position to show the sternness which would have nipped it all in the bud . |
| 12 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 13 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 14 | He The gaffer felt I was upset because I was not in the side , but I 've had a virus . |
| 15 | He screamed some incoherent threat , and I honestly looked round to check that I was n't on a film set . |
| 16 | tonight and then I 'm on me raffle next week , but after next , I mean I can stop in the next , I mean I was , I 've never been out since a week on Tuesday cos I was n't on the raffle Friday |
| 17 | I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you , I was n't at a party . |
| 19 | They they 've looked at erm housing and er industrial development , er I was n't at the discussion yesterday , but clearly they 've put a significant effort into deciding what the appropriate level of new industrial development is . |
| 20 | Well I was n't at the time . |
| 21 | ’ Now he wanted to know why I was n't at the point . |
| 22 | I was n't at the conference , what a pity . |
| 23 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 24 | But I was n't of the seniority to be one of the inner group of ministers which all prime ministers tend to work most closely with . |
| 25 | Before then , yes , we must of bought it when we moved in cos I , I mean I was n't without a bed |
| 26 | I was n't with the Company any more and Arnie did n't have much in the way of friends left in DC so … |
| 27 | I was confident I was n't over the limit . |
| 28 | I knew what I was doing ; I was thoroughly prepared ; but that did n't mean that when the day came I was n't in a state of nervous collapse . |
| 29 | Since I was n't in a position to return the Parsons ' hospitality , I felt an obligation to provide conversational value for money , so I embarked on a series of anecdotes about my time abroad , some true , all exaggerated , a few plain invention . |
| 30 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |