Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not expecting anything like that . ’ |
| 2 | In terms of the sort of , negotiation , were there any stages , when people were not telling you about |
| 3 | Yeah , but , I mean I was just , erm , I found that very informative as well , I was very disappointed that if that much money er , information was available that we were not given it as members , because it would have made decision making far more sensible , but erm , |
| 4 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 5 | Yeah although in fact the roadworks were , were not slowing us down it was , it was the approach to the M three junction was , was really very bad but the erm the road the , the roadworks at Heathrow , we just sort of breezed through that . |
| 6 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 7 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 8 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 9 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 10 | ‘ The people that were there were not representing anyone except themselves , ’ said Mr Mbeki . |
| 11 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 12 | They did n't , they di they were n't watching them for very long at all . |
| 13 | so she says they were getting it but were n't watching it till eight . |
| 14 | Mr when he gave evidence , assessed the parent 's contribution as quote absolutely amazing really , not just what they did to help the nurses but also in insisting that she was n't stupid , she just could n't talk they made it clear to the nurses and doctors that she could understand and we were n't to treat her like a vegetable . |
| 15 | If you were n't blackmailing me with that threat to set the press on me , then I 'd be out of that door in half a second flat ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I left my number at your office , I said that you were n't to call me during the day . |
| 17 | I were n't eating it until |
| 18 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 19 | The police were expecting a peaceful demonstration , the demolition contractors were n't expecting one at all . |
| 20 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 21 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 22 | I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles . |
| 23 | I were n't having none of it though . |
| 24 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 25 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 26 | AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure . |
| 27 | I felt a bit sorry for 'im once , so I sent 'im over a bird but 'e were n't 'aving none of it . |
| 28 | I felt a bit sorry for 'im once , so I sent 'im over a bird but 'e were n't 'aving none of it . |
| 29 | And he could have , he could have , because , then we were importing about three quarters of our food from overseas , there was depression all the time in the thirties , and we were n't growing anything near the amount of food that we needed . |
| 30 | They certainly were n't saying it about Lester Piggott on Royal Academy a couple of years back either . |