Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not expecting anything like that . ’ |
| 2 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 3 | so she says they were getting it but were n't watching it till eight . |
| 4 | If you were n't blackmailing me with that threat to set the press on me , then I 'd be out of that door in half a second flat ! ’ |
| 5 | The police were expecting a peaceful demonstration , the demolition contractors were n't expecting one at all . |
| 6 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 7 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 8 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 9 | His argument that he was not displaying it towards another gains strength from the fact that , under section 18 ( which is explicitly concerned with the offence of stirring racial hatred ) the word ‘ display ’ is not similarly qualified . |
| 10 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 11 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
| 12 | I was n't plotting anything at all . |
| 13 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
| 14 | I was n't expecting anyone at all like you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Hello Michael , I was n't expecting you for another twenty minutes . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was n't expecting you for another hour or so . |
| 17 | It just smelt like Christmas cake cooking , and I was n't cooking anything at all . |
| 18 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
| 19 | She was n't disturbing him at all , said Dyson , swinging round in his chair and resting his elbow comfortably on the stacks of unsubbed copy and uncorrected proofs . |
| 20 | It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all . |
| 21 | on the ar , we well you know we 've paid for his education since he was seven because he was n't doing anything at primary school ! |
| 22 | Mm that 's why I thought you was n't doing anything on that day , |