Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That reference to judges ; you were n't thinking I might drag you into court and do battle over Thomas ? ’ |
| 2 | The hotel 's owners are furious that they were n't told it may be listed . |
| 3 | I said if I 'd known they are n't , they , they were n't coming I 'd have gone out . |
| 4 | Resolution of the GATT problem was " critical to the security of Europe " and if a quick solution was not achieved there would be a crisis . |
| 5 | And since Karajan 's 1977 production of Strauss 's Salome was not filmed we can not recapture that with any certainty , though it exists in purely aural form on record . |
| 6 | If Isambard was not lying it might be already late . |
| 7 | He told her in no uncertain terms that his father , the Duke of Edinburgh had agreed that if , after five years , his marriage was not working he could go back to his bachelor habits . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I was n't thinking it would be him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if yer was n't involved 'e wo n't be able to . |
| 10 | which I was n't suggesting I could , no |
| 11 | ‘ I was n't implying you could n't do it yourself , ’ he added hastily , seeing her expression . |
| 12 | He explained that if the money was n't raised it would destroy confidence , and anyhow such an unusual move would be very close to breaking the rules about soliciting investment . |
| 13 | I was n't expecting you 'd be that busy just now . |
| 14 | but , I mean if that actually was n't happening you 'd think he'd' 've come back and said we 've got to get in there now , you know get our , our message across and , and make a revolution movement . |
| 15 | Müller was n't to know he 'd come off your medication . |
| 16 | You would think that when she was n't coming she would have got some word round . ’ |
| 17 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |
| 18 | It was true : I was spending every evening and night with my owl , so I was n't leading what could be considered a normal teenager 's life . |