Example sentences of "they were not [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liquidators won an £11.7m judgment against companies owned by disgraced City financier Jim Raper in the Manx court on Monday but said they were not expecting to see any of this . |
| 2 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 3 | In answer to the first the chief told me they were not allowed to divulge such information : it was classified . |
| 4 | The plaintiffs had said that they were not going to perform that contract unless the defendants entered into the contract with them which was in issue . |
| 5 | They were not going to give each other away . |
| 6 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 7 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |
| 8 | They were not going to fight any more , and we decided we must leave them on the island . |
| 9 | Her mother answered her , using a phrase that so many people unthinkingly use , by saying that they were not going to have another baby because ‘ After all , it nearly killed me having you . ’ |
| 10 | They did so all the more readily because they were not expected to adopt any ideological formula but , rather , were able to put the stamp of their own opinions on the policy of a Party which had no set position of its own . |
| 11 | And even during the Second World War er mothers with their children under the age of five er they were n't expected to do any war work at all . |
| 12 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 13 | Well , they were n't going to win this time . |
| 14 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging between some of the Western European cities , the big six , Birmingham , Barcelona , Frankfurt , Rotterdam , Milan and Strasbourg , that they were n't gon na get it all their own way and they were n't going to monopolise those funds that were available for links with Eastern Europe . |