Example sentences of "[pron] was not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't brave then ; I was never brave , but I was not yet broken . |
| 2 | He told me that I was not badly hurt , and that the plan to catch Johann had been successful . |
| 3 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 4 | It was about the inevitability of anxiety , yet its effect on me was not palliative , I was not mildly reassured . |
| 5 | At the time I was not even listening properly . |
| 6 | Perhaps I ought to point out , in closing , that I was not instrumental in organising the petition ( in fact , I was not even asked to sign it ) . |
| 7 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 8 | I was not even going to get a lift to Thurso out of it . |
| 9 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 10 | Whilst I was not physically built as an athlete , I found by hard training I could make the track and cross-country teams . |
| 11 | ‘ Uh huh , ’ said I. I was not easily pacified but the show had already been aired . ’ |
| 12 | I was not wilfully doing anything wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ I was not only speaking out on behalf of Manchester United but their thousands of fans as well . ’ |
| 14 | I was not only losing weight but I felt better : fitter , more alert , more vigorous . |
| 15 | I was not greatly comforted by my talk with Seddon . |
| 16 | For example , to Mrs Thrale he described the scene of this famed moment of quietude briefly — ‘ on a green bank , with a small stream running at my feet , in the midst of savage solitude , with Mountains before me , and on either hand covered with heath ’ — then commented , ‘ I looked round me , and wondered that I was not more affected , but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I played in the friendlies against Wolves and Peterborough but I was not really fit enough , and still felt tired , but that was hardly surprising as these were my first two games . |
| 18 | as if I was not really meant to be here . |
| 19 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 20 | Nabil Al-Shaaf , described as a leading advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chairman Yassir Arafat , was present in Madrid on behalf of the PLO , which was not officially represented . |
| 21 | The Taiwan stock market fell 3.3 per cent following the decision , which was not officially announced , while the Foreign Ministry criticized the bank 's intervention , saying that it would damage Taiwan 's year-old financial liberalization programme . |
| 22 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 23 | This was the beginning of the Militärgrenze system , which was not finally abolished until 1881 . |
| 24 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 25 | He had immense difficulties to overcome , partly because of the average Englishman 's prejudice against foreigners ( especially perhaps the French ) and partly because of the then prejudice of society against a science — veterinary medicine — which was not yet established as respectable . |
| 26 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 27 | Patronage was a vital tool of management , but it was never more than a tool , and it was one which was not generally employed in the form of direct bribery . |
| 28 | In practically every case the publishers were prepared to supply me with information which was not generally made public . |
| 29 | Any such effects may , however , have been countered by the difficulty in uniquely describing a junction which was not previously known . |
| 30 | The death of some , and the secession of others of the College 's founders and original supporters was bound , Blaine felt , to trouble Vial 's mind , which was not well equipped to struggle with disappointments . |