Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not the daughter he wanted . |
| 2 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 3 | William Shakespeare left his wife his ‘ second best bed ’ , and an industrialist from Philadelphia who died in 1947 included among his bequests , ‘ to my wife I leave her lover , and the knowledge that I was n't the fool she thought I was ’ . |
| 4 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 6 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 7 | I was n't the sort of girl when I was younger that men lean out of cars and shout things to , and I 'm glad . |
| 8 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 9 | What are you trying to say … that I was n't the woman involved ? |
| 10 | I mean , I was n't the world you know . |
| 11 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 12 | As Chris Lewis was the man who replaced Ellcock in the England party , his was not the name he most wanted to hear . |
| 13 | Then Bernard suggested taking part himself , an idea which was vetoed however , as his was not the name associated with the company . |
| 14 | His was not the kind of face to reveal weakness by showing surprise but his eyes widened fractionally . |
| 15 | But he was not , unlike his colleague Captain Sturt , interested in geography for its own sake : his was not the thrill of covering the distance , but the desire to discover new species , regardless of their place on the map . |
| 16 | Theirs was not the insecurity of peasants , at the mercy of periodic — and to be honest , often more murderous — catastrophes such as drought and famine , but capable of predicting with some accuracy how a poor man or woman would spend most days of their lives from birth to the graveyard . |
| 17 | ‘ If she were not the daughter of such an important family … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I knew you were n't the composing machine they say you are . ’ |
| 19 | I knew you were n't the kind of woman I could conveniently disregard , as I 'd disregarded Celeste , and I certainly did n't want to become entangled with my team-mate 's girlfriend — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I respected you and I knew you were n't the kind of girl who slept around . |
| 21 | when you were not the holder |
| 22 | ‘ when you were not the holder ’ This was once difficult for the prosecution to prove as there were numerous local taxation offices which issued driving licences . |
| 23 | ‘ when you were not the holder ’ In most cases the suspected driver will either say he has no licence or he will elect to produce a licence and fail to do so . |
| 24 | Cos she was n't the nurse cos she walked in half way through the inquest . |
| 25 | She wanted desperately to make him understand that she was n't the kind of girl Giles had labelled her . |
| 26 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 27 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 28 | And she was n't the type of person to have frills around her neck , for God 's sake ! |
| 29 | ‘ She was n't the woman I came to seek , ’ said Catriona aloud . |
| 30 | ‘ She was n't the woman I came to seek . ’ |