Example sentences of "she was [not/n't] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been careful not to tell her anything , but she was n't altogether a fool .
2 She hung up , leaving me thinking that if she was n't actually a spy , she was wasted .
3 Perhaps she was n't really a dragon … but then again , dragons were often in disguise , were n't they ?
4 She was n't always an Englishwoman either , although more often than not the headmaster gave one of his parents British nationality .
5 She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage .
6 She was not primarily a warship but did carry eight ‘ patteroes ’ , anti-personnel guns which fired a lethal scattering of stones .
7 Diana replied that she was not yet a member of his family and , what 's more , she had no other dress suitable for the occasion .
8 But that was why he 'd told Doreen she was not yet the hostess .
9 Since the infant plaintiff was at the time of the accident en ventre sa mère she was not then a person or a human being in esse and in fact she had no separate existence apart from her mother .
10 ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you .
11 ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you .
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