Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The liquidators won an £11.7m judgment against companies owned by disgraced City financier Jim Raper in the Manx court on Monday but said they were not expecting to see any of this . |
| 2 | Older siblings living in mainland Scotland were not permitted to see or communicate with their younger brothers and sisters , even though they were in no way involved or implicated in the allegations that had been made against the parents . |
| 3 | Ward Sister was still complaining that children were not allowed to see the patients unattended . |
| 4 | If the friends were n't expecting to see the pool , their eyes would widen and James 's lips would twitch . |
| 5 | I dare say you were n't expecting to see me , either ? ’ |
| 6 | you know that we wer we were n't allowed to see our customer 's briefing ? |
| 7 | that was not intended to see if you could survive that , although that does happen |
| 8 | ‘ It is my deepest regret that my dad was not spared to see , and enjoy , all that is happening to me . ’ |
| 9 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 10 | It just occurred to me that this was the day I was not meant to see ’ |
| 11 | It was best , she decided , not to dwell on the thought that this evening was one she was not meant to see . |
| 12 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 13 | While it was sad that , from what Travis had said about everything with Rosemary being all over , she too might never see him again , she felt nothing but joy that she was not going to see his overbearing cousin again either . |
| 14 | It is n't the you are not expected , at least , I was not expected to see the Council producing masses of pages for our reading afterwards and this report , by the way , is worth reading . |
| 15 | ‘ I was n't expecting to see you again . ’ |
| 16 | I was n't allowed to see the rushes . |
| 17 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 18 | I was n't going to see Morrissey and at that point the whole of Finsbury Park could have been laughing and it would not have mattered . |
| 19 | Watching the kestrel was a great experience , but life was still very frustrating for me because my mother understandably would n't let me wander very far afield , and I was n't going to see my first real live wild owl in Colchester Park ! |
| 20 | The tape showed Anderson sitting , struggling to keep himself alive and to communicate with the outside world , but the world was n't going to see it . |
| 21 | But it was clear Johnny was n't going to see the credits roll when he announced : ‘ I wanted to ride the mountain . ’ |
| 22 | He told me he was n't planning to see Mum straightaway but that he 'd call round in a couple of days to comfort her . |