Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 2 | ‘ That , too , Father , I confess , though we were not party to it . |
| 3 | The incomer might not agree to any existing house rules or feel that they can ignore them because they were not party to them initially . |
| 4 | But it was not Ethel to be wed . |
| 5 | Burton had no middle-class expectations , and certainly no desire to ape aristocratic ways he was not heir to . |