Example sentences of "was not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 2 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 3 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 4 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 5 | ‘ I told them I was not putting up with that sort of behaviour , but they just got more abusive . |
| 6 | In the end , said Hartley , ‘ the pleasures of imagination must decline ’ — but Wordsworth , although recognizing the possibility in Tintern Abbey — was not to face up to this fact until the time of the Immortality Ode . |
| 7 | She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family . |
| 8 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 9 | However , in the Braniel a young male fieldworker found ( for rather obvious reasons ) that he was not passed on to any young women of a similar age to himself . |
| 10 | The plan was not working out at all well . |
| 11 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |
| 12 | I think the occasional piece which encouraged your readers to rediscover the genuinely great figures of the past — Gene Vincent , for example — would be useful , especially if it was n't tied in with some promotion or record release |
| 13 | ‘ What a set-up for a young lass when her father must n't be told she goes to a dance , ’ said Lizzie , which brought forth from Peggy the sharp and quizzical retort , ‘ Remember , Mam , when I was fifteen I was n't allowed out at all after six o'clock unless you were with me . ’ |
| 14 | But Jessamy was n't going along with that ! |
| 15 | that that green was n't put on for that competition . |
| 16 | It was n't coming out in any special order , though Pascoe suspected that something was being saved until the end . |