Example sentences of "[was/were] not with the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oddly enough , I was not with the rest of the aircraft that were in the search ; in fact my station was offshore — not on the coast , or inshore — but quite some distance out in the Gulf . |
| 2 | Jeanette 's eldest son David was not with the rest of the family . |
| 3 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 4 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 5 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |