Example sentences of "were not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were not to take her home , where would they go ? |
| 2 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |
| 3 | If the calf dies , you will wish you were not wearing them either , although they may help you as you dig a hole for the body . |
| 4 | ‘ The family and surgeon were not expecting him to live , ’ said family friend Patrick Shervington . |
| 5 | The Caddocks were not involved he added . |
| 6 | And yet it 's the people around Harlow were not supporting it what the hell are you going to do then ? |
| 7 | We knew this meant that we were not to repeat it . |
| 8 | They were not to feed her or coax her , and any food refused was to be removed without comment . |
| 9 | Where the wooden floors were not exposed they were covered in that brown linoleum with a pattern of black fleurs-de-lis . |
| 10 | In the morning be told the others they were not to disturb her . |
| 11 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 12 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 13 | In terms of the sort of , negotiation , were there any stages , when people were not telling you about |
| 14 | Were not telling you |
| 15 | there 's no rush were not wanting 'em |
| 16 | were not wanting 'em , we 've got one in each going so |
| 17 | Eventually she admitted to us that Charlie was stealing them to sell and we were not to mention it . |
| 18 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 19 | Yeah , but , I mean I was just , erm , I found that very informative as well , I was very disappointed that if that much money er , information was available that we were not given it as members , because it would have made decision making far more sensible , but erm , |
| 20 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 21 | Russell interviewed sixth form pupils in the Bradford area during 1982 , and amongst other things commented that ‘ it was disturbing to discover the number of boys who were reluctantly studying the subject mathematics at A level , and were not enjoying it ’ . |
| 22 | Yeah although in fact the roadworks were , were not slowing us down it was , it was the approach to the M three junction was , was really very bad but the erm the road the , the roadworks at Heathrow , we just sort of breezed through that . |
| 23 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 24 | She felt that he was not doing well because he was not trying hard enough , and that his teachers were not making him try hard enough . |
| 25 | Were not having them . |
| 26 | AN election candidate was last night accused of abusing democracy after some of the people who signed his nomination papers said they were not told he was standing for the far-Right British National Party . |
| 27 | But they were not doing it to supply the world 's newspapers and magazines with better pictures . |
| 28 | If you were not to accompany us I would have to find someone in New York . |
| 29 | The pasty-faced bureaucrats at New Scotland Yard were not to know he felt about as much at home there when he first arrived as a Martian . |
| 30 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |