Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the thunderstorms of the morning , i hoped we were not going to need it in the improving afternoon weather . |
| 2 | I wonder whether they were n't trying to get it for the museum . |
| 3 | Mr Browne had a gerbil in a cage in the classroom , but we were n't allowed to take it to the dorms — it had to stay in the classroom . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we were n't going to do it like this any more , ’ Rogers said . |
| 5 | You were n't planning to use it for any of your own guests , were you ? ’ |
| 6 | Without meaning there is only suffering , and I was not going to leave it at that . |
| 7 | Though she had swum the river on her own , she obviously was not going to risk it with her family . |
| 8 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 9 | He had something else on his mind too , but was not allowed to divulge it to anybody else , under the threat of being ‘ pulped to mush ’ . |
| 10 | But I was n't allowed to take it with me when I left ; it was n't really mine at all . |
| 11 | ‘ She listened to me and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , darling , but I was n't going to do it for you . |
| 12 | She had the feeling that he was n't going to take it at all well and , like the Taurean bull that he was , he was highly dangerous when aroused . |
| 13 | I was n't going to leave it for much longer at all . |