Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | When interviewed she agreed she was not ill-treated . |
| 2 | When Carrie was told she said she was not surprised . |
| 3 | I suppose he thought I was not giving of my best , and as I was known as a rather shy , reserved sort , he had decided that a quiet word at an informal moment would be the best approach . |
| 4 | This sometimes occurs in certain environments and when asked how this could be rectified he said it was not viable to work on a computer of that age and invest in a new one . |
| 5 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 6 | But even as she seethed she knew it was not true . |