Example sentences of "[v-ing] that he [was/were] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then sent a counter-embassy to Charles ( in the autumn of 772 ) , explaining that he was not unlawfully retaining those lands claimed by the Pope on behalf of the Exarchate of Ravenna , as the claim was false . |
| 2 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |
| 3 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 4 | Merrill asked , fastening her seatbelt and wishing that he were n't so devastatingly attractive . |
| 5 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 6 | She said no more , knowing that he was n't particularly interested , that his mind had moved elsewhere . |
| 7 | Finding that he was not there , they ordered two family members and three customers to enter a police minibus and to keep their heads down . |
| 8 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |