Example sentences of "[was/were] not [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 2 | The banks , threatened with the loss of many lucrative transactions ( and with expensive computer networks to maintain ) were not co-operating with the authorities , who talked of sending the police round to see that they did . |
| 3 | It said a lot for the captain himself that his team remained confident in themselves even when results were not going for the Scots . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 5 | When I was not swinging on the goalposts , I was arguing with the rest of the girls ( or playing ‘ chasy ’ games with the boys ) . |
| 6 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 7 | Catherine and he still spent time together , when he was not working in the fields , but he no longer expressed his fondness for her in words , and he looked angry if she touched or kissed him . |
| 8 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 9 | ‘ Imagine you 're squeezing a penny between your cheeks , dear , ’ he would burr in his soft Scots voice , and I can assure you he was n't referring to the cheeks of my face . |
| 10 | She was n't speaking to the men who were sitting with her ; she sat completely still , with a pale glass of something — ; Vichy water ? — untouched in front of her . |
| 11 | Make sure the wind or the frost was n't getting at the roots . |
| 12 | We issued a statement pointing out that she was n't talking to the kidnappers in Beirut , and sent a letter to that effect to every MP , but it was a busy time and no-one really noticed . |
| 13 | But the , the trouble was the water was n't going into the dowels |
| 14 | Indeed Michael Blair did it full justice several times last night and who says Josef Locke was n't standing in the wings giving it an envied ear … |