Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has no time for interfering adults , but I was not to be daunted ; I stuck to him until I saw for myself that he had no methods and did not teach , or rather , did not impose . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I was not to be with Basil for long , for after less than a year he was appointed as Art Adviser to the West Riding . |
| 3 | ‘ Did I not say I was not to be disturbed ? ’ |
| 4 | I was n't to be allowed to do what Fiona and Tremayne had both foretold , that I would find the truth for Doone . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you that one of the men on the train kept saying that Farrell needed information from me , that Farrell had said I was n't to be killed . |
| 6 | Oh oh now I do n't know whether I was n't to th er remember whether they gambled on it or not but |
| 7 | But she was n't to be stopped . |
| 8 | Dana made her intentions very clear and she was n't to be turned from her objective by the sight of Roman kissing Claudia . |
| 9 | Now , at the time we had my grandmother living with us , so we had to tell her shut up , erm , and when they rang , er on the door , she , she was n't to sort of , call out and you know , to tell us that the door was ringing , |
| 10 | If she had n't resisted he would no doubt have made sure Peter knew at once that she was n't to be trusted ! |
| 11 | Jack hissed furiously , but he could see she was not to be harried . |
| 12 | When we learned that she was not to be charged , the detective inspector carrying out the investigation told us : ‘ It 's the first I 've heard of it . ’ |
| 13 | She was not to be resisted . |
| 14 | But she was not to be put off easily . |
| 15 | It seemed she was not to be rid of Svend 's dictatorial uncle so easily . |
| 16 | She was not to be trapped into suspicion again ; if he knew his power so well that his presence was unnecessary , that was enough for her . |
| 17 | But she was not to be beguiled . |
| 18 | Tried to get me and Adam away and all , but we was n't to be budged ! ’ |
| 19 | He had hoped there would be time for a quick cup of tea but it was n't to be . |
| 20 | And something about his voice made Philip think perhaps it was n't to be a parrot after all . |
| 21 | But it was n't to be : he knocked the putt by about 3 feet and then pulled the one coming back wide and finished up shooting a 63 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , it was n't to be . |
| 23 | But , as everybody knows , it was n't to be . |
| 24 | ‘ Have a nice stay , ’ said the customs official , but it was n't to her . |
| 25 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 26 | But it was n't to be and as a result we now have fewer engineers and probably fewer skilled people in industry than ever before : crumbly foundations to build upon if it is going to be built along the old traditional lines . |
| 27 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 28 | In the event , it was n't to be . |
| 29 | It was n't to be expected , ’ the Bishop said bitterly . |
| 30 | It was n't to be . |