Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sort of , but I were n't coughing all night like that . |
| 2 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 3 | Well on , on Saturday , I might go , but like , Sunday 's a good day and I 'll I 'll were n't gon na do the market , I were n't do that market , and I could go down on Sunday . |
| 4 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 5 | ‘ I was not thinking that way . |
| 6 | I should say at once I was not harbouring any weirdo Lawrentian notion that the lightning had zapped the little cow back to life the moment I left the turret ; for one thing there was the matter of missing parts . |
| 7 | I was not expecting any of you . ’ |
| 8 | I was not looking that way ! |
| 9 | I was not wearing any special clothes , but this lady — she was from an old Lucknow family could see by my manners that I was not a common person . ’ |
| 10 | Unlike the Labour party and the Militant Tendency we tend not to have card-carrying women , but I can tell the hon. Lady , although I was not asked this question , that precisely 50 per cent . |
| 11 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 12 | I was not missed that day either at school or at home . |
| 13 | As a researcher , it was very important to be sensitive to these problems and consistently reassure social workers that I was not undertaking any semi-official enquiry , and not looking for particular cases that ‘ go wrong ’ . |
| 14 | said I was not to say sixteen not sixty ’ and in so doing will have lost the game . |
| 15 | I was not saying any of that . |
| 16 | But I was not making much progress because I did n't have much mathematical background — and anyway , I might not live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 17 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 18 | Commenting on the compensation award , Mrs Taylor said : ‘ I was not doing this for the money . |
| 19 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 20 | ‘ I was not offered that possibility . |
| 21 | I was not told that mask clearing displaces everything ! |
| 22 | I was n't pushed inter this marriage , ’ she said softly . |
| 23 | Was I sure I was n't experiencing any symptoms ? |
| 24 | No I was n't suggesting that Mr Chairman . |
| 25 | he did when I was n't acting thick . |
| 26 | I was n't expecting that . |
| 27 | Oh that 's a bit political Rachael is n't it a bit political I was n't expecting that |
| 28 | I was n't expecting all this . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't expecting this . ’ |
| 30 | I missed the strike two weeks ago and I was n't expecting this . |