Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was n't referring to physical appearance , ’ he snapped . |
| 2 | I was n't used to such good treatment , then it clicked : we were wearing suits . |
| 3 | She was n't chatting to other people in the queue . |
| 4 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 5 | She was n't used to such handsome men paying her attention . |
| 6 | She was n't used to that either . |
| 7 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 8 | It is possible that what we are dealing with here is the experience of sections of the professional gentry , though it was not confined to that group alone . |
| 9 | The condition was named Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and , as more cases emerged from the USA , Europe and Africa , it became apparent that it was not confined to gay men . |
| 10 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 11 | He was n't reacting to that ploy . |
| 12 | He was n't used to all this political discussion . |
| 13 | Mr Gow made it clear that he was not referring to small men in any literal sense . |
| 14 | Obviously he was not referring to obstetrical anaesthesia , in which controversy thrives . |
| 15 | He was not reacting to this latest development , but to something that was going on outside . |
| 16 | Feeling some shyness — he was not used to social life , and this looked to be above his station — he used the brass knocker , polished as it was to show one 's face , distorted , as though in a mirror at a fair . |