Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
| 2 | I was n't in the adopt-an-orphan business . |
| 3 | No I was n't , no I was n't in the least bit impressed with it . |
| 4 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 5 | I was n't in the best of shape to receive bad news and that was what awaited me in the byre . |
| 6 | Marion ? and I was n't in the last week so I doubt whether |
| 7 | Cassie had to admit that when you were n't on the receiving end , Johnny had a marvellous line in invective . |
| 8 | She was looking for a pensioner but , you were n't in the right street . |
| 9 | ‘ It was apparent from the start that , if you were a journalist , you were not of the hard-nosed variety . ’ |
| 10 | Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush . |
| 11 | She was n't on the wooden horse or in the yard or in the tack room . |
| 12 | She was n't like the other beggars , not quite a supplicant ; fairer than the maids and with her head uncovered . |
| 13 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 14 | The Doctor could see she was not in the best of moods . |
| 15 | But she was not in the flighty , dumb-blonde mould . |
| 16 | Erm , you could take the as one unit and say , but now a man , wishing to be another , approached that man , and when he found us , for we were not outside the all , he wound himself round us and attached himself to that man who was then each one of us . |
| 17 | Erm but now another man erm wishing to exist or perhaps , but not a man wishing to be other erm approached them er and when he found us , for we were not outside the all |
| 18 | Later in the day I learnt from the Canadian that we were not in the main part of the camp at all , but in the cells or ‘ cooler , awaiting interrogation . |
| 19 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 20 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 21 | Two Government reports had concluded they were not in the public interest . |
| 22 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 23 | They were n't in the actual flat at that time er their role was to er prevent members of the public whilst the armed officers were at the scene erm from entering the corridors at either end of the block of flats . |
| 24 | they were n't in the ordinary fixed roll |
| 25 | In Tune with the Infinite , subtitled Fullness of Peace , Power and Plenty , would not be out of place on any committed New Ager 's bookshelf if it were n't for the frequent references to God and the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | He might even be passably attractive , Virginia told herself furiously , if it were n't for the villainous growth of stubble on his jaw . |
| 27 | ‘ If it were n't for the three dead men , this could be almost amusing . |
| 28 | In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag ! |
| 29 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 30 | And in this case it seems likely that even if it were not for the depressed state of aggregate demand in the British market , the commodities produced by Talbot at Linwood would not have generated ‘ sufficient ’ profit for Peugeot . |