Example sentences of "[was/were] not [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so she says they were getting it but were n't watching it till eight . |
| 2 | I were n't eating it until |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They certainly were n't saying it about Lester Piggott on Royal Academy a couple of years back either . |
| 6 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 7 | His argument that he was not displaying it towards another gains strength from the fact that , under section 18 ( which is explicitly concerned with the offence of stirring racial hatred ) the word ‘ display ’ is not similarly qualified . |
| 8 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 9 | He moved and acted , but the springs of his life and the driving force of his actions were not within himself … his strength was being spent on the grindstone of alien work ; he was not putting it to his own account . |
| 10 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I know he 's got a navy blue one but he was n't wearing it on Friday night . ’ |
| 12 | And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben |
| 13 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
| 14 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 15 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry I was n't relating it to erm to polio . |
| 17 | er my Lord it was n't , I was n't raising it for the purpose of your Lordship mentioned , er namely er er about er contingency fund , though indeed will be entitled to that , I raised a question of the minute , the board minute , to do with the concerned with Mr rest of the meeting about the placement |