Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in the case of the Pul Eliya wedding , I was not around to witness the business of pouring water over the veiled faces of the bride and bridegroom which I was told would take place and which is included in D'Oyly 's 1828 account . |
| 2 | What I was doing now was no crazier — and no less crazy — than they ; but I was not about to pretend that the future of the planet depended on my explorations . |
| 3 | I was not about to make an instant bid for a terraced house with no immediate sex appeal . |
| 4 | In the UK , the FRG and the USA the proportions varied between 6 and 10 per cent , which was not enough to make a significant difference . |
| 5 | There was little likelihood that he would believe it , and , anyway Huy himself was not about to trust the Medjay completely . |
| 6 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 7 | He saved all his problems up for sympathetic women who were not about to write a piece on him . |
| 8 | Erm as we were going through and we talked about a will , you said there there 's somebody you knew who would be able to , you know , who you 'd like to carry out your wishes if you were not here to carry them out yourself er I think it was , was it er John ? |
| 9 | She was not here to enjoy herself — well , not primarily — but to get that interview under way . |
| 10 | She was not about to stop and engage in a scrap on the very doorstep of the bar . |
| 11 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 12 | If she was having any herself , she was not about to join them . |
| 13 | Whatever the crux of their disagreement she was not about to disclose it . |
| 14 | She had wanted to disguise her trembling hands : she was not about to explain to her sick grandmother the reason for her fright , for the panic that rose within her chest . |
| 15 | Why could n't he simply accept that she was not about to defer to his wishes and go ? |
| 16 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 17 | When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement . |
| 18 | Mara never talks about Diana and she was not about to make an exception yesterday . |
| 19 | She had made it quite plain that she was not about to stay here at all , but Alain had outmanoeuvred her with ease . |
| 20 | But she was not about to reveal such precious dreams to him . |
| 21 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 22 | But we were not about to give up . |
| 23 | Neither Tandri nor Yong knew — and we were not about to tell them — that we no longer had enough money left to make a single call . |
| 24 | We were not there to look pretty at all . |
| 25 | What the pair of county ladies thought of its mid-thigh hemline Harry could not imagine , but he for one was not about to object to the brush of her black-stockinged knees against his drab-trousered legs . |
| 26 | An extra £3,500 had to be transferred from the leisure services central budget because there was not enough to produce publicity leaflets and posters . |
| 27 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 28 | A few further discs did eventually appear , the Ecodisc and the Volcanos disc among them , but they were not enough to revitalise the fortunes of the Domesday initiative . |
| 29 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 30 | He warned the jury that they were not there to judge anybody , but to decide how the unfortunate Mr Oliver had died , and if there was sufficient evidence to bring criminal proceedings against anybody . |