Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I were not able to give you pleasure , ma petite , and thus give myself great happiness , then the fault would be mine , ’ Félix said , smiling once more . |
| 2 | " If I were not willing to aid our dear uncle , it would be a strange day indeed ! " |
| 3 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 4 | I was not keen to go yet because I still had a vivid memory of that hand . |
| 5 | ‘ Unlike Araminta , I was not content to bow to their decree . |
| 6 | I have often been asked why I was not content to photograph instead of kill them . |
| 7 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 8 | So I was not sorry to see them go . |
| 9 | To my consternation it included the name of Mr Kagan , with whom I was not anxious to resume an acquaintance , not because of what happened afterwards but because of what had happened in my office . |
| 10 | I was not due to arrive in Paris until very late in the evening , when it would be dark . |
| 11 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 12 | As an ex-naval coxswain I was not obliged to take the Mountbatten course but did in fact take a refresher course at the Command Navigation Centre , HMS Raleigh at Torpoint which , under the auspices of a Lieut Commander fresh from training at Dartmouth Naval College , I found very arduous . |
| 13 | Bernini was arguably the most important architect and sculptor in my period and Charles had effectively indicated that I was not competent to lecture on him . |
| 14 | ‘ I was not pleased to meet your lawyer friend . |
| 15 | After a day 's work and a trip to Wormwood Scrubs on a number 220 bus , arriving in the dark and perhaps the cold , I was not inclined to put in further effort . |
| 16 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 17 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 18 | I will tell you I was not happy to drive into the night . |
| 19 | On mentioning that I was not happy to pay for a second hour of parking , for the privilege of waiting for their delayed train , I was told ‘ That 's no problem . |
| 20 | I was not supposed to clean there , it 's just that I love reading and sometimes I feel starved . |
| 21 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 22 | I was not surprised to learn that the shelling of our positions was not the German guns but the British guns ( the bastards ) . |
| 23 | I was not prepared to disrupt our rest day schedules for routine work , although when on a special operation or in an emergency we often had to do just this and all the crews were conditioned to flexibility in special circumstances . |
| 24 | I was not prepared to do much of the aggressive abolishing and slashing proposed in its reports . ’ |
| 25 | I was back to visit it because Ben Tee , via the falls , was one of a series of outings I was proposing for a book of Lochaber walks , and despite all my nosing about I was not prepared to describe things without another visit . |
| 26 | ‘ I was not prepared to use my own savings to pay for that , ’ John said . |
| 27 | I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy . |
| 28 | But shortly afterwards , er , I was in confrontation with the chairman the basis of my contract with was such that it was not to his liking and I was not prepared to give way in the matter and was dismissed within six months of the acquisition of by . |
| 29 | I was not prepared to put British jobs on the line . |
| 30 | But I was not prepared to drive new roads across continents . |