Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he did not think it was of formidable enough dimensions even to link the industrial towns of the North , let alone spearhead a wider rising . |
| 2 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 3 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
| 4 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 5 | He asked instead why Hunter-Blair had not said he was at the Post on the day of the murder and why he had troubled to ask Linley to keep his presence secret . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying it was worth that but she payed . |
| 7 | Harbison , of Horkesley Road , Colchester , said he had not known he was over the limit , and would not have driven if he had . |
| 8 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 9 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 10 | I did not mean you were in danger . |
| 11 | Crowds of chanting protestors gathered in the town centre as the 65-year-old Edinburgh man addressed a bunch of supporters at the King 's Head Hotel which did not realise it was to be the BNP 's venue . |
| 12 | But I would not say he was beyond revenge . ’ |
| 13 | I had n't heard he was in France . |
| 14 | They went all the way by car and she does n't think they were on the road very long . |
| 15 | I did n't think they were like that , did you , these satellites ? |
| 16 | I did n't think they were in a big way |
| 17 | Travel rep Fiona cancelled plans to join her New Zealand born boy-friend CHRIS BUDGETT , 26 , on a trek of the Everest base camp because she did n't think she was in shape . |
| 18 | I do n't think she was in no . |
| 19 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 20 | Did n't think you were into dykes , though . ’ |
| 21 | But I did n't think you were among them . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 23 | She thought I was carrying on , and she did n't think I was in labour . |
| 24 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't think he was into women , ’ she reveals . |
| 26 | I do n't think he was at all well known abroad but in Austria he was famous for his wit . |
| 27 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in but it was about five foot deep . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think he was in danger of falling any further in , but it was about five feet deep . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't think he was in the best of moods when he , we got to him . |