Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these two were n't dressing up for the great outdoors . |
| 2 | After Nightmare in the Netherlands , it was great for me to be at a happy , good-tempered game where the sun shone brightly and we were n't held back for an hour by ugly policemen with argumentative dogs and bolshie attitudes . |
| 3 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 4 | A public school was more alien to his nature than his father realized : this son was not cut out for a smooth ascent of the ladder of preferment . |
| 5 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 6 | For example , there was no real requirement to handle Training or Sickness and Absenteeism recording ( although it was not ruled out for the future ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’ |
| 8 | He was n't going in for the Eddie . |