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 . |