Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she was not moving at all , she developed a weeping wound in her leg one day , and the circulation collapsed to the extent that she nearly had to have the leg amputated . |
| 2 | He was not digging at all now but taking a breather , evidently . |
| 3 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 4 | Mr Hollins 's voice was still kind , but he was not budging at all . |
| 5 | When five o'clock came and Jimmy began to tidy his desk , she was not thinking at all kindly about her employer . |
| 6 | Bob was not sweating at all . |
| 7 | Marguerite looked shocked , her eyes turning to Alain for some sort of confirmation , but Jenna was not waiting at all . |
| 8 | So she was not feeling at all friendly to Naylor when , shortly after breakfast , they left Parkwood . |
| 9 | More likely than not , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 10 | He was n't thinking at all , just breathing . |
| 11 | She was n't thinking at all ; hands preoccupied with textures , grainy soil and rough brick , smooth stone , slimy wetness of the odd slug or worm . |
| 12 | In fact , as she clung to him while they shared another kiss , and then another , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 14 | This was n't helping at all . |
| 15 | He was n't helping at all . |
| 16 | But , given the doom and gloom already surrounding the earliest silent movies , maybe he was n't joking at all . |
| 17 | well God help her she could n't er , at the end , she could n't eat at all and we were forcing her to eat and she was n't eating at all . |
| 18 | ‘ I was n't feeling at all alarmed ! ’ she protested . |
| 19 | She probably was n't guessing at all . |
| 20 | Playing like we played was n't lying at all , it was nothing to do with lying . |
| 21 | This was n't going at all how she had hoped . |
| 22 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 23 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |