Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
| 2 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 3 | But I was not of that age , had no desire to learn programming languages , and had undergone game aversion therapy . |
| 4 | So orders were given that I was not under any condition to open that thing unless I knew who was there . |
| 5 | When I bought Irving Scholar 's Tottenham stake in June 1991 I was not in any position to judge Terry 's talent for business . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I just woke up one morning and I felt glad to be alive , and glad that I was n't on this earth on my own , that there were other people to share it with me and help me get through my life . ’ |
| 7 | I was n't at all kind , and that 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 8 | I was n't at any party . |
| 9 | The others in the family did n't like me because I was n't of pure blood . |
| 10 | ‘ I was n't under any pressure so I kept on going , but I could have gone miles faster . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember at the 1987 Europe Cup in Prague , when I was n't in great shape . |
| 12 | Because I was n't in full training I was n't burning the calories . |
| 13 | Because I was n't in full training I was n't burning the calories . |
| 14 | as if I was n't in enough trouble with the cab company already — blood all over the place ! ’ |
| 15 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 16 | And it was just me arm and me hand and me face that were were burnt and and at that the time I mean I was n't in any pain and I think there was more serious ones to be dealt with . |
| 17 | I was n't in any danger . ’ |
| 18 | I knew I was n't in any danger . |
| 19 | Other people might be fooled into thinking he had some redeeming qualities , but she was n't among that number . |
| 20 | She was n't in frantic form but she was zipping hither and dither . |
| 21 | She was not of any age but an immortal loveliness . |
| 22 | Sir : I refer to the dropping of charges against the man accused of raping a mentally handicapped girl on the grounds she was not of fit mind to answer questions and give evidence ( 4 October ) . |
| 23 | At least she was not in imminent danger of encountering Fen Marshall . |
| 24 | She could not understand why Alain had insisted that she be here , unless of course it was to instil in her this very attitude that she was not in any way entitled to a share of their past . |
| 25 | Even as he carried her out of the lighted kitchen his lips continued to caress her and she was not in any way close to recovering as he placed her on her feet in her own room . |
| 26 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 27 | I thought it was a Garrick tradition that if you was n't in any sore in the second act , you know you were n't really there . |
| 28 | But it was n't worth fifty pound a week . |
| 29 | Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night . |
| 30 | I 'd have a lot more if it was n't for bloody death duties . ’ |