Example sentences of "he was not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was n't thinking at all , just breathing . |
| 3 | But er oh he was n't liked at all . |
| 4 | But , given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies , maybe he was n't joking at all . |
| 5 | She 'd wept and said he was n't to talk like that . |
| 6 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 7 | He was n't reacting to that ploy . |
| 8 | He was n't helping at all . |
| 9 | He was n't used to all this political discussion . |
| 10 | And he made it clear that he was n't talking about regular reallocation of senior positions in the Church . |
| 11 | The interesting thing , just in passing , that particular time of the year was not actually harvest time , and as Jesus looked over the harvest field it was n't the harvest field that was ripened corn , it was actually full of green shoots , and it is the harvest now is ripe , it 's plenteous because he was n't talking about that , he was talking about men and women . |
| 12 | Incidentally , he was n't known as Chief Education Officer , he was Secretary for Education , he only became Chief Education Officer after the war but erm he was the Controller of Shift E and most of the education staff were on Shift E. |
| 13 | Apparently he was n't touting for more Pest Control business , rather his tropical iguana had escaped and made off through the undergrowth . |
| 14 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 15 | It occurred to him that he was n't equipped for such a life , and the edginess sharpened to resentment . |
| 16 | I did n't think it likely that John would be killed — after all , he was n't held by Islamic Jihad — but I felt the tension all the same . |
| 17 | A person who harassed a neighbour with racist abuse would nevertheless have no defence that he was not acting in public if his words were , ( as he knew ) audible to the person next door . |
| 18 | Mr Hollins 's voice was still kind , but he was not budging at all . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | He was not digging at all now but taking a breather , evidently . |
| 22 | He was not charged with any crime but on Jan. 14 was detained without bail as a material witness in the BCCI case . |
| 23 | But he was not moved by such feelings to sympathize with the rebels and the subversive . |
| 24 | She realised that he would want an easy uncomplicated life where everything ran smoothly and he was not troubled with domestic difficulties . |
| 25 | The only procedural defect alleged in M. 's appeal is that the committal order was not served on M. personally , or , alternatively , that he was not served until 3 July , nearly a month after he had been committed to prison . |
| 26 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 27 | But of course he was not inconvenienced by any feelings beyond passion , and was n't lust something that could be quite easily forgotten ? |
| 28 | Mr Gow made it clear that he was not referring to small men in any literal sense . |
| 29 | Obviously he was not referring to obstetrical anaesthesia , in which controversy thrives . |
| 30 | ( 194 ) He was very soon made to understand that he was not wanted in that corner of it where old Lingard and his own weak will placed him … |