Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] not at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as they approached , he realized that they were looking not at him , but past him at something farther off . |
| 2 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 3 | His eyes were abnormally large , and suddenly Alexei realised that both the muscles around the eyes and the jet black pupils which were centred within the golden irises were affected not at all by the light but responded rather to some inner stimulus . |
| 4 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 5 | First , in the brief sketch of the early history of radar in the United Kingdom , the earliest work on the detection of aircraft was done not at Bawdsey but at Orford ; Bowen 's middle name was not Gordon , but George ; and as a member of the Airborne Radar Group , I can assure the author that Bowen did not develop airborne radar ‘ single handedly ’ , nor did we develop the plan-position indicator . |
| 6 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 7 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the main centre for the Isthmus of Ierapetra region was to develop not at Vasiliki , but at Gournia , close to the north coast some 6 kilometres north-west of Vasiliki . |
| 9 | An energetic girl , she spent the day swimming , jogging , cycling and hiking before retiring to their tent , blissfully ignorant that the thrust of Floss 's nightly attentions was directed not at her but the succuba who also haunted my dreams . |
| 10 | This exclamation was directed not at the Captain but at the aromatic roast loin of pork that was steaming towards them , propelled by Cesare . |
| 11 | It was a tall , thin , almost clownlike man with large destroyed teeth in a long mobile face who was the unlikely source of so commanding a voice ; and it was a relief to find that it was directed not at us , but at our surrounding mob . |
| 12 | For once in her life she was grateful for the surge of anger welling up inside her , glad to use it as a defence , even though in her heart she knew it was directed not at Dane but at herself . |