Example sentences of "i was not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 2 | I was not involved at all until the open meeting , which I attended and where I was pleased to have this opportunity to give my own personal views . |
| 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 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 . |
| 5 | I was not dealing with that important overall view , which the hon. Gentleman also expressed at length yesterday . |
| 6 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 7 | Unfortunately in 1971 I was not protected from that most pernicious word by those inverted commas . |
| 8 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 9 | I mean I was n't born until nineteen thirty and I mean I I I can remember Jim well so he did n't die until probably nineteen forty . |
| 10 | ‘ I was n't referring to physical appearance , ’ he snapped . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unfortunately I was n't blessed with that . |
| 13 | ‘ I was n't neglected in any way . |
| 14 | I was n't asked for any more information . |
| 15 | You 've ruined me , Piers Morrison , she thought angrily , staring at her reflection in the mirror as the prospect of a dreary Saturday evening faced her ; I might not have been terribly nice before I met you , but at least I was n't filled with this pain and dissatisfaction . |
| 16 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ JUST because I was n't interned in 1981 does n't mean I 'm not a Polish patriot too , ’ fumed a member of the Karczmiska Communist party committee . |
| 19 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 20 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 22 | I was n't thinking about that , I was thinking about the way you were walking |
| 23 | I was n't thinking about that , I was thinking about the playgroup downstairs . |
| 24 | Well no I was n't I was n't thinking about that . |
| 25 | Oh no , no , I did n't , I was n't thinking of that , but er |
| 26 | I said i I was n't thinking of that ! |
| 27 | No , I was n't thinking of any time . |
| 28 | No I was n't playing with any policeman erm |
| 29 | I was n't used to such good treatment , then it clicked : we were wearing suits . |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't feeling at all alarmed ! ’ she protested . |