Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ London is a nice place to visit , but being from the North of England we were n't exactly overflowing with money . |
| 2 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 3 | By contrast with the Liberal understanding , the kingdom as Blumhardt preached it was not gradually evolving through history , nor identified with the moral progress of human civilisation , but would come ‘ from beyond ’ . |
| 4 | Though by that time , he was not usually thinking of nourishment but the simple satisfaction of hunger . |
| 5 | She was n't even going to humour Mrs Fanshawe any more . |
| 6 | To prove I was n't totally lacking in appeal , I suppose . |
| 7 | I was n't absolutely brimming with confidence but there was nothing wrong with Seve 's tee-shot this time . |
| 8 | But the organisational nightmare and sundry fall-out fade into insignificance next to Hendrix , though he 'd ditched his experience for a conglomerate called The Gypsy Sun And Rainbows Band , Hendrix was n't really looking to flesh out his playing . |