Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [was/were] [adj] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass . |
| 2 | And she was careful not to be found out ; her recklessness , she says was only apparent : she always thought of Anna . |
| 3 | This roused the Ruffians from their lethargy and they were unlucky not to be level when a Sharman shot was deflected on to a post . |
| 4 | He did not want to believe Fiver , and he was afraid not to . |
| 5 | ‘ If you remained a friend of Bills 's — and it was difficult not to — you were forced to admit that modesty did not rate highly in his scheme of the virtues . |
| 6 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |