Example sentences of "[pron] were [not/n't] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He saved all his problems up for sympathetic women who were not about to write a piece on him . |
| 4 | ‘ He just said : ‘ Tell her : ‘ You always did say I did daft things if you were n't around to stop me . ’ ’ |
| 5 | I mean , you were n't there to see . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A pity you were n't there to tell my teachers that . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | But we were not about to give up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We were not there to look pretty at all . |
| 11 | " I thought we were n't out to shoot elephants or tigers , " replied Joseph absently . |
| 12 | Of course we were n't about to ask , what on earth has happened to you , since we knew it could only be O who had done this to him . |
| 13 | But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | As one rather disillusioned Protestant Unionist put it : ‘ they were a party who believed in their God given right to rule this country ’ and they were not about to give up that right , especially as they could see signs of regaining control of their own party . |
| 19 | Still , in true Dwarf fashion , they were not about to admit to a mistake . |
| 20 | They were not out to destroy their commercial prospects in that huge market , still less to jeopardize their oil supplies , for a misplaced sense of loyalty to a fallen friend . |
| 21 | Her eyes unfocused , her mind back in the past , she continued softly , reminiscently , ‘ It was after the war , you see , and women had become used to working , being independent , and jobs they 'd held down while their men were away fighting they were n't about to give up easily . |
| 22 | And they were n't out to mug just anyone passing . |
| 23 | They were n't out to impress or wield power . |
| 24 | 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 . |