Example sentences of "[pron] was not [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 2 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 3 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 4 | I 'd like to say that I was not too sorry to see him go . |
| 5 | I was n't best pleased to see her . |
| 6 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 7 | I heard the motor but I was n't even able to get the number . " |
| 8 | She resented the fact that I had children of my own and that I was n't as desperate to have them as she was . |
| 9 | Lack of funds in the past meant that I was n't always able to see the job through . ’ |
| 10 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 11 | I was n't only late to arrive I was late to leave , too . |
| 12 | I was n't too shy to leap into bed with them , but I was too shy to tell them what I needed . ’ |
| 13 | I was n't therefore able to recommend this film when a few months later a woman from Nottingham requested a loan . |
| 14 | She was a friend and adviser for the family as they tried to negotiate a path through an education system which was not always easy to understand . |
| 15 | After all , she was n't ever likely to forget his first damning exposé of her character , was she ? |
| 16 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 17 | And because she was n't quite ready to challenge his statement , ask him exactly what he meant , Ellie asked stupidly , ‘ Will she be happy ? ’ |
| 18 | She was not particularly eager to share the information with Leif — though doubtless he would bombard her with searching questions , as he had done before — but she had made Vitor think that the two of them were close . |
| 19 | She was not even able to read : though the family possessed an extensive library , Dona Marguerita had it kept locked and the key lodged with Padre Jorge , who was prepared to issue devotional books only , and that grudgingly . |
| 20 | Well , she was not exactly overjoyed to have him acting as her chauffeur , either ! |
| 21 | She was not yet ready to commit herself so far . |
| 22 | For she was not yet willing to admit defeat and retreat to England . |
| 23 | I could immediately guess why she was not too keen to stay . |
| 24 | Gazzer took a step backwards , disturbed to find that he felt threatened : she was not so easy to manage after all . |
| 25 | Again she considered that she may be falling in love with him but this time she was not so quick to dismiss it . |
| 26 | She was not really surprised to see Jenny and Matthew crossing it side by side , Jenny talking animatedly , looking up into Matthew 's face . |
| 27 | Her grasp of English was obviously limited , and she was not much inclined to stretch it further . |
| 28 | There was no evidence yet of the even-handedness necessary in a true peace-broker , for it did not demand of Israel recognition of the PLO , let alone recognition of the Palestinian right to self-determination , something the United States itself was not yet ready to concede . |
| 29 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 30 | But it was n't really convenient to have the porch used as a shelter or as a storage for Harry 's odd and rather smelly belongings . |