Example sentences of "was not [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the lessons began I realized that I was not nearly up to the standard of the others . |
| 2 | Breakfast was not yet over at the curator 's house when Orrie came to announce that the police were in occupation , and beginning to stake out the ground . |
| 3 | She realized she had to go home immediately , although her time was not yet up at the farm . |
| 4 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 5 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 6 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |