Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 2 | as if I were not one person as I had always thought , but divide very simply and cleanly into two — the erotic and the maternal . |
| 3 | ‘ If I were not able to give you pleasure , ma petite , and thus give myself great happiness , then the fault would be mine , ’ Félix said , smiling once more . |
| 4 | " If I were not willing to aid our dear uncle , it would be a strange day indeed ! " |
| 5 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 6 | then I were married in sixty five I were n't fifteen ! |
| 7 | Yeah I were n't asleep on the couch though . |
| 8 | whether you still pay them tax wise they now I 've still got my redundancy money I were n't thirty days without it , or I 'll |
| 9 | I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees . |
| 10 | I were n't sure what I 'd have done but |
| 11 | but I were n't sure where , I think it were last week it were gon na be |
| 12 | I were n't sure whether it was last Thursday , Friday or Saturday or this |
| 13 | I were n't sure . |
| 14 | It smelt strange in here but I were n't sure if it was my fish paste sandwich or not ! |
| 15 | No I were n't married until six he , Billy were born in sixty six . |
| 16 | She would never say so , and I probably would n't think such a thing if I were n't pregnant , but pregnant — me thinks : she 's keeping something of me , something of the child I was , in those trunks down there , so as not to lose me entirely , so as not to lose my childhood completely . |
| 17 | ‘ I were n't afraid . ’ |
| 18 | Well I did n't because I were n't old enough like I were only young . |
| 19 | That is , I , I take it would still be me even if I were seated , I would still be me even if I were n't holding a book , possibly I 'd still be me even if I were n't American . |
| 20 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 21 | If I were n't wild about someone else I 'd be wild about her . ’ |
| 22 | and they said no , I were n't entitled to it |
| 23 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 24 | The EST freak , Boyd , said , as he took off his trousers and shook his penis at me , ‘ If I were n't white and middle class I 'd have been in Pyke 's show now . |
| 25 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 26 | I had never done that , but I was not immune . |
| 27 | The fact that I was not alive when the munich thing happened — and that it happened so long ago — gives me far less problems with it than say heysel songs , hillsboro songs , and even racist ( black ) songs . |
| 28 | He said afterwards that he had always been confident ‘ because I was not guilty ’ . |
| 29 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 30 | I was not keen to go yet because I still had a vivid memory of that hand . |