Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were not looking at one point , as the worshippers did at the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' School ( Day Independent ) : they were moving up and down , backwards and forwards , bumping into each other and generally carrying on like people at Victoria Station during the rush hour . |
| 2 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 3 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 4 | The scenery was so vast it seemed they were n't moving at all . |
| 5 | So if you just kept your treble clef you 'd have a lot of lines possibly that you were n't using at all . |
| 6 | Till eventually I mean you ere doing it with these As you were going through here you were n't looking at this table you were working some of them out you were saying , Oh that 'll be a double positive that 'll be a double double negative these 'll go together . |
| 7 | Long-term objectives were n't working at that particular stage … |
| 8 | Things were n't going at all well within the UK vehicle Division . |
| 9 | Because she was not moving at all , she developed a weeping wound in her leg one day , and the circulation collapsed to the extent that she nearly had to have the leg amputated . |
| 10 | He was not digging at all now but taking a breather , evidently . |
| 11 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 12 | Mr Hollins 's voice was still kind , but he was not budging at all . |
| 13 | When five o'clock came and Jimmy began to tidy his desk , she was not thinking at all kindly about her employer . |
| 14 | Bob was not sweating at all . |
| 15 | Marguerite looked shocked , her eyes turning to Alain for some sort of confirmation , but Jenna was not waiting at all . |
| 16 | This raised the obvious question of why , if the money supply was expanding so rapidly ( it averaged 12 per cent p.a. 1981–87 ) , inflation was not running at 9 per cent or more . |
| 17 | So she was not feeling at all friendly to Naylor when , shortly after breakfast , they left Parkwood . |
| 18 | More likely than not , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 19 | He was n't thinking at all , just breathing . |
| 20 | She was n't thinking at all ; hands preoccupied with textures , grainy soil and rough brick , smooth stone , slimy wetness of the odd slug or worm . |
| 21 | In fact , as she clung to him while they shared another kiss , and then another , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 23 | This was n't helping at all . |
| 24 | He was n't helping at all . |
| 25 | But , given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies , maybe he was n't joking at all . |
| 26 | well God help her she could n't er , at the end , she could n't eat at all and we were forcing her to eat and she was n't eating at all . |
| 27 | ‘ I was n't feeling at all alarmed ! ’ she protested . |
| 28 | She probably was n't guessing at all . |
| 29 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 30 | Playing like we played was n't lying at all , it was nothing to do with lying . |