Example sentences of "[pron] were not [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 2 | Of course , Dorcas thought , as a scientist and rational thinking nome I know we were n't really intended to live under floorboards the whole time . |
| 3 | so that , that will be quite good , erm and lastly we went to meet with Sandra from Youth Out , fund employed theatrical fund , which was a meeting we were n't really allowed to have , and this is certainly not for the record |
| 4 | Chairman it 's er an excellent question an an and I , I , I 'm hesitating in giving er an an off the cuff answer , but the first of all we were n't actually asked to issue a statement of conformity at this stage |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know if we were n't actually allowed to go in there , ’ says Bernard , ‘ but it was an officers ’ domain and I do n't think we 'd have been very welcome going in there as lower ranks . |
| 6 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 7 | They were not even allowed to take such belongings as they had — pots and stools and the like . |
| 8 | They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area , for reasons vague but peremptory , put forward by their landlady , an octogenarian Mrs Irving , who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats , and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing . |
| 9 | In Orkney not only did the parents not see or have any access to their children , they were not even allowed to communicate by letter or telephone . |
| 10 | They were not usually intended to produce a modern type of financial statement and only very rough approximations can be wrung out of them . |
| 11 | Admittedly the Lord Treasurers were , until the appointment of Paulet in 1552 , unqualified noblemen ; but they were not usually expected to perform any serious duties . |
| 12 | They were not legally entitled to do so as teenagers and various factors may trigger their desire to find their birth parents at this stage . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman 's synthetic protestations about unemployment would carry a little more conviction if he were not so determined to advance policies which , by introducing a national statutory minimum wage , by embracing the European Commission 's social action programme and by imposing a jobs tax on employers , would make unemployment far , far higher than it otherwise would be . |