Example sentences of "[was/were] not [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not expecting anything like that . ’ |
| 2 | In terms of the sort of , negotiation , were there any stages , when people were not telling you about |
| 3 | Yeah although in fact the roadworks were , were not slowing us down it was , it was the approach to the M three junction was , was really very bad but the erm the road the , the roadworks at Heathrow , we just sort of breezed through that . |
| 4 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 5 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 6 | ‘ The people that were there were not representing anyone except themselves , ’ said Mr Mbeki . |
| 7 | Although it would be a tough year for sure , revenue was not dropping anything like as much as the bookings percentage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 12 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the independence of the Tariff Reform League was a positive advantage : after January 1913 the party supported the tariff policy but was not including them in its immediate programme , so that Central Office could continue to distribute tariff propaganda from the TRL without compromising party policy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 16 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 20 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 21 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |