Example sentences of "[adv] was [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sin , curiously enough was not committed by any woman . |
| 2 | The boyfriend , who suddenly was not allowed to be involved in these discussions at all , talked to his girlfriend and they were married by special licence . |
| 3 | This statement ‘ out of the blue ’ naturally was not understood by the speechreader , who wondered why people laughed . |
| 4 | This procedure obviously was not followed in this case and Turning Point is looking into what happened . ’ |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman obviously was not listening to my answer . |
| 6 | He said this kindly , as if he meant it as a tip she could use on her next date — which obviously was not going to be with him . |
| 7 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 8 | on on erm one side of A four and it was obviously was n't written by a young man |
| 9 | The presence of columnar epithelium of the gastric type only was not considered to be Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 10 | But er any pinching or anything like that ooh it was erm it just was n't accepted at all . |
| 11 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe it just was n't meant to be . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you did everything you could but it just was n't enough , it just was n't meant to be . |
| 14 | I mean it just was n't talked about . |
| 15 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 16 | This fear of American inroads into areas that Britain used to control effortlessly was not confined to civil aviation ; the British also resented the activity of US oil companies in the Middle East , and US attempts to break into the British-dominated international rubber market and the sterling bloc . |
| 17 | Mr Turner was a chartered surveyor who worked for Hamptons estate agents , but had realised that he ‘ patently was n't suited to selling houses ’ . |
| 18 | See , right if he still was n't speaking to me properly I would n't have brought that off him ! |
| 19 | His voice was soft , silky , which she supposed was a warning , but she still was n't prepared for the speed with which he moved her top aside . |
| 20 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 21 | But he still was n't going to be intimidated . |
| 22 | It is equally clear that the antonym of namely was not confined to a class of medrese , as in all likelihood was , or came to be , but had a much wider usage as an essentially geographical term . |
| 23 | It was designed to be a communication between experts , discussing technical issues within their own subject field and hence was not intended for ’ public consumption ’ . |
| 24 | This statutory requirement for an apprenticeship to be served before a trade could be taken up was not repealed until 1814 in the face of organised trade-union opposition . |
| 25 | The court held that the false description 40 days later was not associated with the sale and therefore no offence was committed under section J. This does not mean that the offence can be committed only by the immediate supplier . |
| 26 | The patrol probably was n't looking for me — there were too many fugitives in Chinatown to concentrate on just one — but they 'd be more than willing to take me in if they tripped over me . |
| 27 | She probably was n't guessing at all . |
| 28 | ‘ It probably was n't working in May 1940 . |
| 29 | ‘ I think you just have to have a flexible mind , ’ said Masklin , knowing even as he said the words that this probably was n't going to be a lot of help . |
| 30 | There clearly was n't going to be any Douglas Fairbanks Jnr that night . |