Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] was not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met her she was getting very distressed and confused and frightened that she was not with her mother , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've heard that he was n't on speaking terms with Alfred and that the feud — whatever it was — goes back many years … ’ |
| 3 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 4 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 5 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 6 | Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it . |
| 7 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 8 | I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office . |
| 9 | But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company . |
| 10 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 11 | Joe sincerely believed that it was n't in his nature to be cruel . |
| 12 | He had admitted that she was n't in his heart but she was nevertheless in his life . |
| 13 | One lad , belonging to a respected family , had been given a long sentence although he and local residents emphatically maintained that he was not at the scene of the incident for which he was convicted . |
| 14 | After waiting around for some considerable time to see if there was any chance that Elector Carl Theodor would offer him even a temporary appointment , Mozart was informed that it was not to be . |