Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 2 | He asked instead why Hunter-Blair had not said he was at the Post on the day of the murder and why he had troubled to ask Linley to keep his presence secret . |
| 3 | Harbison , of Horkesley Road , Colchester , said he had not known he was over the limit , and would not have driven if he had . |
| 4 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 5 | They went all the way by car and she does n't think they were on the road very long . |
| 6 | I did n't think they were in a big way |
| 7 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 8 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 10 | I do n't think he was in the best of moods when he , we got to him . |
| 11 | Just thought I 'd told you for cos from the erm , title i , you would n't think it was about the navy . |
| 12 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 13 | There never was any threat from them to Barbara — they did n't know she was at the flat because she was in her room when they burst in . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know you were in the hotel ’ |
| 15 | The precaution probably was n't necessary , but on the off-chance that more thugs from INCUBUS came sniffing round , they would n't know he was in the area . |
| 16 | I did n't know it was on the , it was on the T V today , said it was very good . |
| 17 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew you 'd had a son , but I did n't realise he was in the house , ’ Vitor said . |
| 19 | I did n't realise it was in the er |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't say they were in the same field , ’ he says dryly . |
| 21 | ‘ You need n't say I was in the closet with you in that tone of voice , ’ she hissed at him . |
| 22 | He came to the door , said he was standing as a candidate , but did n't say he was from the BNP . |
| 23 | William Langley said : ‘ He certainly did n't say he was from the British National Party and there is no way I would have signed the form if I had known . ’ |