Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was not [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe her , I trust her and I was not bewitched by her green eyes , owing to the fact that I was on duty at the time . ’ |
| 2 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 3 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 4 | She was not a party to the proceedings and she was not represented before the court . |
| 5 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 6 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 7 | He had plenty of time to prepare this great phrase , for the outrage was said to have happened in 1731 and he was not asked about it until 1738 , but the delay led to no awkward questions ; by the late 1730s Parliament was growing increasingly annoyed with Spanish interference with British trade , and it was not willing to let Walpole go on with his peaceful policy . |
| 8 | Curtis was at that time Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal and he was not motivated in what he did by any particular animus towards Indians . |
| 9 | It was later written that he was ‘ … right glad to be translated from Bristol to Exeter for , while the former See was poor , the latter was better endowed and he was not withheld by any scruples from begging for promotion ’ . |
| 10 | She realised that he would want an easy uncomplicated life where everything ran smoothly and he was not troubled with domestic difficulties . |
| 11 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 12 | Trevor 's leadership role was frequently weakened by personal tragedy and illnesses , and he was not suited to the position of a national organizer . |
| 13 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 14 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 15 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 16 | He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world . |
| 17 | But Eliot continued to work on it , and it was not published until 1926–7 . |
| 18 | It was a long document which took about forty minutes to read and it was not greeted with warm enthusiasm . |
| 19 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 20 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 21 | I was convinced of it , but I was not staked on it . |
| 22 | ‘ Make way for Miss Louise , ’ they chorused , but I was not bothered by their sarcasm : it was the snowballs that some threw that mattered . |
| 23 | But she was not silenced for long . |
| 24 | But she was not intimidated by the old man 's manner which could sometimes be childishly cajoling , sometimes violent as it was today . |
| 25 | But she was not juxtaposed against an asexual image of respectability . |
| 26 | But he was not re-elected to the council in November , for by then that faction 's aims and conduct were offending the moderate majority in the House . |
| 27 | He made his debut a week or two after joining us and soon settled down at left-half , making the berth his own , but he was not seen at his best until Palace manager Tom Bromilow signed Les Lievesley from Torquay . |
| 28 | The issue of leadership was crucial in this-election ; Carter came across to the voters as a decent man of high moral principles , sympathetic to the underprivileged and of moderate views , but he was not perceived as a strong positive leader . |
| 29 | But he was not moved by such feelings to sympathize with the rebels and the subversive . |
| 30 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |