Example sentences of "i [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look . |
| 2 | I was not going to be one of those mothers who cried , and I did n't . ' |
| 3 | I could n't sleep or eat for thinking about it but I decided I was not going to be beaten by AIDS . ’ |
| 4 | I only hoped , as the sun sank lower and the breeze grew cool , that I was not going to be obliged to use it . |
| 5 | ‘ One barged past me and said I was not going to be taking the car away and became abusive . |
| 6 | I was not going to be left in Reine to attend to the chores . |
| 7 | From the tone of her voice , I thought I was not going to be able to avoid being slung in the box and slipped off the Isle of Wight ferry . |
| 8 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 9 | You fell in love with an illegitimate girl who carries her father 's name by grace and favour , not by right — never mind that I was not meant to be illegitimate ; that is what I am . |
| 10 | ‘ I know I was n't born to be a size eight or 10 , ’ she says . |
| 11 | Fortunately I was n't expecting to be lecturing , but er , |
| 12 | What I was n't prepared for was the jolt your appearance gave me . |
| 13 | What I was n't prepared for was my reaction to her rejection . |
| 14 | You have to clean a lot of brasses , but I mean I was n't gon na be put off . |
| 15 | ‘ I was n't meaning to be rude when I said you had n't changed . ’ |
| 16 | I was n't going to be greedy . |
| 17 | It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade . |
| 18 | ‘ I was also afraid that I was n't going to be fed properly . |
| 19 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 20 | I said I was n't going to be , and I was already doing scientific research with you . |
| 21 | I was n't going to be no whore in Nassau . |
| 22 | I felt if I mentioned them [ the symptoms ] they 'd think I was skiving or malingering or being a hypochondriac or neurotic , and I was n't going to be labelled as those things . ’ |
| 23 | And I said smoothly that of course I did , for I was n't going to be inveigled into an emotional uproar . |
| 24 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 25 | A faint tinkle of metal told me that Shep was lurking there in his kennel and I slowed my steps ; I was n't going to be caught again . |
| 26 | After all the ditches I 'd waded through I was n't going to be defeated now — and only a few yards ahead was the blessed sea . |
| 27 | I was n't going to be cheated out of my Day to Remember , oh no , and neither was she . |
| 28 | I warned you I was n't going to be able to consider you and any doubts , hesitations or scruples you might have this time around , and I should have remembered that . |
| 29 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 30 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |