Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [v-ing] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 4 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 5 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
| 6 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
| 7 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
| 8 | She was n't disturbing him at all , said Dyson , swinging round in his chair and resting his elbow comfortably on the stacks of unsubbed copy and uncorrected proofs . |
| 9 | David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time . |