Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Caddocks were not involved he added . |
| 2 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 3 | Even during the evacuation — more than 180,000 people were moved — most of them were not told what had happened . |
| 4 | The pasty-faced bureaucrats at New Scotland Yard were not to know he felt about as much at home there when he first arrived as a Martian . |
| 5 | When the young East Anglian maltsters were not working they played hard , often violently . |
| 6 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 7 | They were n't putting , that they were n't playing they did n't have |
| 8 | When they were n't arguing they got on quite well talking about their careers . |
| 9 | Erm anonymous , my son joined the paras five years ago and he was bullied , and another anonymous person from Rugby , my two children were in the army and though they were n't bullied they did see horrific things happening to other lads . |
| 10 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 11 | In certain circumstances the previous definition created problems in that the cause of the electrical or mechanical failure was not defined which meant that the electrical and mechanical failure from accidental cause could have been construed as breakdown , when in fact it was an Accidental Damage claim . |
| 12 | When he was not flying he kept himself busy by designing and building his own fighter with parts ‘ cannibalised ’ from scrapped and battle damaged aircraft . |
| 13 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 14 | Sometimes if there was an illness in the house the sick person would join in the prayers through the open doors but when the silence was not broken he nodded to Mona and she took up Rose 's Decade . |
| 15 | When payment for games totalling more than £7,000 was not received he wrote back to the bank and received two additional references on December 18 , 1990 and January 15 , 1991 confirming that the company was good for up to £10,000 . |
| 16 | Whilst this was not denied there seemed to be general confusion among teachers about the nature of ‘ multicultural education ’ and the nature of the school 's problems with respect to this issue . |
| 17 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 18 | She was not advised she had a reasonable civil case until 1985 . |
| 19 | ‘ Well if yer was n't involved yer got nuffink ter worry about , ’ Danny reassured him . |
| 20 | And you just poured the water in top press a button and you get draught lager and they have now produced I believe , er it was network marketing , and I was n't involved I did n't want involved in network marketing and it now produces gin and tonic vodka lemonade . |
| 21 | When he was n't looking I poured mine on to the floor . |
| 22 | That was n't to say she did n't like him , because she did , but then it would be very hard not to ! |
| 23 | If machinery was n't serviced it broke down ! |
| 24 | It was n't known they knew each other . ’ |
| 25 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 26 | But , it , it was n't saying I 'd made , made an error |
| 27 | He was n't saying he thought her desirable , was he ? |
| 28 | But when he was n't playing he liked to talk . ’ |
| 29 | A couple of years ago I was n't bothered who knew . |
| 30 | ‘ But it was n't work I wanted to get away from , just the kind of people I sometimes have to work for . |