Example sentences of "was [adv] not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only nothing happened the next day and Chesarynth knew she was right not to trust herself because she could n't tell waking from dreams of an endless corridor with people whispering about her behind locked doors . |
| 2 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 3 | I was n't , I was going to go right , I was just not thinking you know , sort of |
| 4 | The woman was just not doing her job and getting through . |
| 5 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 6 | He was still not committing himself . |
| 7 | A third point was that Crown counsel at the trial , Mr. Pantry , improperly tried to cross-examine the defendant and also commented to the jury on the defendant 's exercise of the right to silence and that the trial judge was wrong not to correct him . |
| 8 | For , though Alexander was there , he was clearly not expecting her to walk in on him at that precise moment . |
| 9 | He was carefully not displaying his cigarette holder and wore a floppy khaki drill jacket and baggy trousers of the same material . |
| 10 | It was true that Naylor Massingham had apparently said to Travis 's mother that Travis was a big lad now , but Travis was hurting like the devil inside and was consequently not handling his unhappiness and loneliness in a very ‘ big lad ’ fashion . |
| 11 | ‘ My one thought then was how not to hurt her feelings . ’ |
| 12 | Alice probed Andrew , but he was either not giving anything away , or was ignorant of Bert 's and Jasper 's alternative ideas . |
| 13 | It was safer not to see her . |
| 14 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ she said with feeling , dispelling a pang of guilt with the observation that she was certainly not presenting herself in a flattering light . |