Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] was not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would curse when he heard the message , even though tomorrow the string would be doing road work and she was not needed . |
| 2 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 3 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 4 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |
| 5 | Held , ( 1 ) refusing to join B. as a party , that , since B. claimed no personal interest in the money in court and it was not suggested that the money belonged to the ousted regime , her only locus standi would be as a person entitled to represent the Republic of Somalia ; but that , on the evidence , B. had no recognition as a representative of the Republic in the United Kingdom ( post , pp. 749H — 750B ) . |
| 6 | I wanted an apology and I was not given one . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 8 | The air was thick with smoke and he was not offered dinner afterwards , merely driven back to the organizer 's home many miles away . |
| 9 | He arrived on time for his appointment and he was not kept waiting ; the receptionist introduced him at once . |
| 10 | His car was not spotted in the area that morning and he was not identified as being there . |
| 11 | If you knew nothing about chocolate and it was not wrapped would you ever buy it ? |
| 12 | Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal . |
| 13 | He was not given any VIP treatment and he was not paid . ’ |