Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually Aunt Louise would seem to be asleep , or not to realize I was there . |
| 2 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 3 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |
| 4 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 5 | She 's not to know I was supposed to catch yesterday 's plane . ’ |
| 6 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 7 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 8 | Slaven said after the game : ‘ I could not believe I was not on the substitutes ’ bench . ’ |
| 9 | I can not believe I was so shallow back then . |
| 10 | It 's hard not to wish I was thinner again , hard not to long to be invisible , to escape all their gibes , and comments and the feeling of being on display . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not saying I was n't robbed . ’ |
| 12 | Personally I am not alarmed and , unless they are upset by their own extremists , it would not surprise me were they to remain in office for some time , during which they may do considerable good . |
| 13 | But this did not mean I was happy with it , or knew , precisely , when and how I could carry it out . |
| 14 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 15 | When he did not come I was surprised . |
| 16 | I came to Doncaster not feeling I was going to win . |
| 17 | For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring , I can not say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Did I not say I was not to be disturbed ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I had n't realised I was resuming hostilities ! ’ |
| 20 | it 's in thingy , I did n't want I was just checking and the |
| 21 | I did n't think I was being very original any longer and I was basically administering . |
| 22 | I do n't think I was fired on once . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't think I was speculating ’ she said in a rebuke to the Government 's attitude towards the advertised high-return , low-risk investment offered by Barlow Clowes . |
| 24 | I do n't think I was dreaming . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I did n't think I was much good either . |
| 26 | At least my friend did n't think I was vain enough to commission the work myself . |
| 27 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 28 | Sprinting is my living , and I did n't think I was being paid enough to appear in Britain . |
| 29 | I did n't think I was going to be found guilty other than by accident . |
| 30 | I do n't doubt that I — in my tenuous superiority — was impatient both with the school routine and the people around me , but I do n't think I was bored . |