Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 2 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 3 | Although he 'd written that I was not a fantasy for him , he had dreamed me , written me , into a woman far less flawed than I am , or ever could be . |
| 4 | For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles . |
| 5 | I was not a pioneer of part time senior registrar training in Wessex : several people were already in post . |
| 6 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 7 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 8 | And er we used to go occasionally to W E A meetings , in the library at , and er I was n't a member of his class , but I did once go and hear Hugh , when he was at Nottingham . |
| 9 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 10 | It was well up , I w I was n't a second at it . |
| 11 | Now I would have stood my ground , I was n't a dog to be sent running hither and thither , but Benjamin added his plea with his eyes . |
| 12 | Now I was n't coming I was n't a refugee from anything except unemployment . |
| 13 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 14 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 15 | I was n't the sort of girl when I was younger that men lean out of cars and shout things to , and I 'm glad . |
| 16 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 17 | He discovered that night , in what has been called his ‘ Luftwaffe ’ speech , that his was not a voice in the wilderness ; instead , he was speaking for the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 18 | His was not a mission at the cutting edge of British diplomatic activity . |
| 19 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 20 | His was not the kind of face to reveal weakness by showing surprise but his eyes widened fractionally . |
| 21 | But he was not , unlike his colleague Captain Sturt , interested in geography for its own sake : his was not the thrill of covering the distance , but the desire to discover new species , regardless of their place on the map . |
| 22 | Theirs was not a relationship of expansive gestures like that . |
| 23 | Theirs was not the insecurity of peasants , at the mercy of periodic — and to be honest , often more murderous — catastrophes such as drought and famine , but capable of predicting with some accuracy how a poor man or woman would spend most days of their lives from birth to the graveyard . |
| 24 | ‘ If she were not the daughter of such an important family … ’ |
| 25 | I knew you were n't the kind of woman I could conveniently disregard , as I 'd disregarded Celeste , and I certainly did n't want to become entangled with my team-mate 's girlfriend — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I respected you and I knew you were n't the kind of girl who slept around . |
| 27 | In fact its grip is restricted entirely to those propositions whose truth would mean that you were not a brain in a vat . |
| 28 | There we claimed that if nothing in your experience could count as evidence that you were not a brain in a vat , your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be called justified . |
| 29 | You … you assured me she was n't a part of your life and I did … |
| 30 | She had always prided herself , as she got older , that she was n't a bit like her mama , but perhaps she was . |