Example sentences of "was not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 11 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 12 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |