Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it would be a tough year for sure , revenue was not dropping anything like as much as the bookings percentage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 15 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 16 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 17 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |
| 18 | That night , as often when she put Josh to bed , Clare held the most precious thing in her world close to her heart and felt guilty and ashamed that she was n't providing him with the things she thought she should . |
| 19 | ‘ Was n't leaving anything to chance . |
| 20 | He stepped back , smiled wryly , and said , ‘ I was n't consoling myself after Angela Macleod , McAllister . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't seeing you with no clothes on , ’ he explained patiently , at last , suppressing laughter . |
| 22 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
| 23 | I was n't plotting anything at all . |
| 24 | ‘ I was n't suggesting anything of the sort , ’ Shae returned evenly . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I know he 's got a navy blue one but he was n't wearing it on Friday night . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 27 | Surely he was n't accusing her of lying about this , too ? |
| 28 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
| 29 | Simon said that he was n't expecting me to be spotted by Ferrari that day ; he just wanted me to get round safely . |
| 30 | I was n't expecting anyone at all like you . ’ |