Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he would do if I were n't here to look after him , I 'm sure I do n't know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If I was n't here to take care of things , how on earth would you manage ? |
| 3 | ‘ I said I was n't here to make moral judgments , that all we wanted was to understand what this project was all about and where it is leading . |
| 4 | But then there was that day she gave me the brooch what she said I was n't never to forget . |
| 5 | No I was n't there to wave to you , I thought |
| 6 | I 'd be shot if I was n't there to cheer . |
| 7 | I was n't there to give you a wave I 'm afraid |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean , you were n't there to see . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ A pity you were n't there to tell my teachers that . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Well she was n't please to see me , no . |
| 14 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 15 | But she was n't here to speculate on her cousin 's love-life . |
| 16 | Head down , she insisted she WAS N'T here to promote her new movie Death Becomes Her , in which she plays an actress worried about her looks . |
| 17 | It had gone now , its place taken by a summer suit Claudia loved at first sight , but she was n't here to buy clothes — she must find Dana . |
| 18 | He was glad she was n't there to listen . |
| 19 | She was not here to enjoy herself — well , not primarily — but to get that interview under way . |
| 20 | We were not there to look pretty at all . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It would n't be their fault that there was n't enough to go round . |
| 23 | I told him they said there was n't enough to go on , but if anything else happened it would all count . ’ |
| 24 | He found there was n't enough to eat on one . |
| 25 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 30 | as if it were not enough to battle the elements and their colleagues ( the crew includes a freaked-out Naval officer with a nuclear warhead and an itchy finger ) , Harris and Mastroantonio are a husband and wife with marital troubles . |