Example sentences of "[pron] was 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 | She was not here to enjoy herself — well , not primarily — but to get that interview under way . |
| 7 | She was not about to stop and engage in a scrap on the very doorstep of the bar . |
| 8 | She was not about to confirm their obvious belief that the count had found himself a new woman . |
| 9 | If she was having any herself , she was not about to join them . |
| 10 | Whatever the crux of their disagreement she was not about to disclose it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Why could n't he simply accept that she was not about to defer to his wishes and go ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mara never talks about Diana and she was not about to make an exception yesterday . |
| 16 | She had made it quite plain that she was not about to stay here at all , but Alain had outmanoeuvred her with ease . |
| 17 | But she was not about to reveal such precious dreams to him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 22 | Stand-in keeper Trevor Matthewson immediately produced a penalty save from Jimmy Quinn , but it was not enough to save the Blues . |
| 23 | But it was not enough to save the company 's jobs . |
| 24 | GARY Lineker scored his first goal today since being sidelined from the Japan League for three months with a broken foot but it was not enough to save Nagoya Grampus Eight from defeat in the opening match of the Nabisco Cup . |
| 25 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 26 | Charlie Vane , Bob Taylor and John Page had a single win apiece , but it was not enough to stop Frimley who scored through Robert Brittain ( 3 ) , Dick Culver ( 2 ) and Peter Glass to take the cup 6–3 . |
| 27 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 28 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 29 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 30 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |