Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.

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1 I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection .
2 I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant .
3 I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant .
4 I figured the last interview I 'd given them , right after the bombing of Flight 103 , had probably been the root cause of why my life had been turned inside out , and I was n't looking for any more trouble .
5 I was n't neglected in any way .
6 I was n't asked for any more information .
7 But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday .
8 No , I was n't thinking of any time .
9 No I was n't playing with any policeman erm
10 And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle .
11 She was not prejudiced against any race .
12 If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest .
13 And it was n't earmarked for any specific items ?
14 Erm , as I say , it was n't taken in any way to circumvent your discussion on the project , it was very much one to ensure that we did n't lose the offered grant .
15 Although there was a Jacobite rebellion in the summer of 1689 , led by John Graham of Claverhouse , Viscount Dundee , and supported by some of the Highland clans , it was not joined by any of the major regional magnates .
16 If the relationship between recall and other measures is entirely mediated by characteristics of the different junctions we would expect to find that within an individual junction there would be no consistent differences between those occasions when it was recalled and those when it was not recalled on any of the other variables .
17 The defendants denied liability and , in particular , that they were liable to pay any part of the additional £10,300 because their agreement to pay it was not supported by any consideration .
18 It was not substantiated by any evidence and William Thompson was only fifteen years old in 1695 .
19 Nevertheless , when Gorbachev made his visit to Japan in April it was not accompanied by any breakthrough over the territorial issue .
20 The motive for this system was the provision of income for the royal treasury from the fees charged on the transaction of money-changing ; it was not prompted by any financial crisis .
21 It was not paralleled by any externally influenced recomposition of the political forces in Finland , and in the Afghan case it is precisely the issue of the internal composition of the Afghan regime which will determine whether Afghanistan will eventually embark on a more truly non-aligned path .
22 The document left many questions unanswered and when it was not endorsed by any major party figure it slid into oblivion .
23 The post mortem now states quite categorically that he was not killed by any sort of missile ( the open window must have been a red herring ) .
24 It was later written that he was ‘ … right glad to be translated from Bristol to Exeter for , while the former See was poor , the latter was better endowed and he was not withheld by any scruples from begging for promotion ’ .
25 He was not charged with any crime but on Jan. 14 was detained without bail as a material witness in the BCCI case .
26 But of course he was not inconvenienced by any feelings beyond passion , and was n't lust something that could be quite easily forgotten ?
27 Scouse was seated in his armchair reading a paperback — a Western — oblivious to the flies and mosquitoes , and as I approached it was obvious he was not bothered in any way about the smell .
28 He pointed out that , unlike the South Western Board , he was not asking for any subsidy .
29 Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority .
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