Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A relative who is staying at the Bennetts ' Liverpool Road home stressed today that they were not building up their hopes . |
| 2 | They were not setting out to trade in gramophone records . |
| 3 | Now , however , they were not taking up corporate subscriptions for their institutions but tapping the resources of their friends and contacts . |
| 4 | It said that a continuing strong demand for credit showed that higher interest rates , whose effects were mitigated by direct subsidies and tax relief , were not holding down investment . |
| 5 | And also it 's true today , you go where your family wants to go and that was , this was er they had a yearning for that and they were not settling down so |
| 6 | The police , still clustered by their vans , were not watching out for trouble . |
| 7 | Those of the children who were not squabbling over fossils or sticking feathers in their hair gazed expectantly at him . |
| 8 | Was it that men really were bad — were men who were not beating up women and buggering children the exceptions ? |
| 9 | Chapman regarded it as his prerogative to deal with players who were not measuring up , and he could be ruthless if he thought they justified it , as in his treatment of Walsh and Black after the Walsall débacle . |
| 10 | Here , listeners were acting in a highly focused , not to say impulsive , fashion , and they were not carrying out analysis of the message at a level that would produce success . |
| 11 | Whilst the plague lasted many chaplains and curates were not carrying out their duties and the Bishop commanded them under pain of interdict and suspension to return to their parishes . |
| 12 | Prices were not going up too fast and again this made it economical for us to visit . |
| 13 | But all the same he wished that McAllister were not going up West with Rose that night , and wondered what was coming over him that such a fly-trap could fill his waking — and his sleeping — thoughts ! |
| 14 | However , they were not going in entirely blind against the occupants of Bethlehem House . |
| 15 | They had not told him they were not going back to Antibes and she saw no point in trying to talk to him about Maurin or Sabine Jourdain or Barbara Coleman while he was in this state . |
| 16 | well I know it says from the Midlands freezing fog , so were not going out in it so I can |
| 17 | well you 've just heard the forecast , if it 's freezing fog , were not going out |
| 18 | Northamptonshire police this afternoon said they were not following up the incident . |
| 19 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 20 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 21 | This could not be as our drug supplies were not coming through so well . |
| 22 | But I simply could not believe that we were not coming back . |
| 23 | For instance you could n't , like nowadays , tighten up a slack scene where people were n't picking up their cues so quickly by cutting out a few pauses here and there . |
| 24 | They were n't joking around . ’ |
| 25 | The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead . |
| 26 | After a couple of days , me and me mother were n't getting on , so she hoyed me out . |
| 27 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |
| 28 | These are the options now facing Birdland , those retrogressive bleach boys of yore ; the notorious Brummie blond bombshells who when they were n't throwing up , were trashing up hotel rooms and getting up the noses of every other band in the land . |
| 29 | But these two were n't dressing up for the great outdoors . |
| 30 | It 's a shame you were n't helping out at Christmas , you 'd 've been able |