Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [not/n't] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was not missed that day either at school or at home . |
| 4 | ‘ I was not offered that possibility . |
| 5 | I was not told that mask clearing displaces everything ! |
| 6 | Alexandra 's deafness had also one unfortunate aspect in that , because she was not given any formal education , she frequently appeared unsophisticated . |
| 7 | It was n't planned that way , she just did n't happen too quickly . |
| 8 | Of course , it was n't made any easier by the fact that Jack was attracting a great deal of interest , anyway . |
| 9 | I think I should while you 're putting the words in such a way so it was n't a er , it was n't thought that everybody just increased everything by five percent . |
| 10 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 11 | So so what you 're saying is it was not related that credit was refused , not because of that fact that say people were actually on benefits , cos er the same person actually somewhere else would would probably get It 's the very fact they actually live in the flats , that actually has largely accounted for people not being able to get credit . |
| 12 | He said he was not given any medicine , and no doctor saw him . |
| 13 | He said he was not given any medicine , and no doctor saw him . |
| 14 | He was not given any VIP treatment and he was not paid . ’ |
| 15 | Since 1960 Kubrick has virtually disowned the film , claiming that he was not given enough creative control . |
| 16 | And , second , there is a sentence in Plutarch 's Life of Artaxerxes ( chapter iv ) about the revolt of the younger Cyrus ( for which see p. 184 ) : ‘ some say that he revolted because he was not given enough rations . ’ |
| 17 | Later , if he was not offered those conditions , he created them for himself . |
| 18 | He was not needed any more . |
| 19 | Planck forbids that , for he says that the energy ( equals loudness ) of vibration can only come in packets of a size prescribed by [ 1 ] But as yet he was not taken that seriously . |