Example sentences of "was not [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 2 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 3 | A TELEVISION commentator who once referred to the Augusta crowd as a ‘ mob ’ so angered tournament officials that he was not invited back the following year . |
| 4 | She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers . |
| 5 | But as I have said to you , the Banbury School 's decision to opt out was not taken on the grounds of the education offered in this county . |
| 6 | He claimed that his intention was not to bring down the government but merely to remind his brother of his election pledge to root out official corruption . |
| 7 | For once I was not travelling along a public road and here I was thinking about falling and having a broken ankle and nobody knowing to look for me . |
| 8 | But I 'd let my gaze slip back down to the wonderfully out thrust cloth over Sergia 's chest , so I was n't picking up every detail . |
| 9 | She was n't brought up a Catholic to my knowledge . ’ |