Example sentences of "he [verb] not [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 2 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 3 | David listened and frankly avowed that he had not been conscious of all these grand ideas . |
| 4 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 5 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 6 | He had deliberately laid them aside this time , though he had not been aware of any direct instruction from his heart to do so . |
| 7 | As a member of the Select Committee , I was extremely concerned when Mr. Rimington , Director General of the Health and Safety Executive , revealed in his evidence that he had not been aware of the restrictions that Lord Cullen felt had been placed upon him in respect of investigating labour relations . |
| 8 | He reiterated his position that he had not been aware of the clandestine funding . |
| 9 | He had not been aware of anything ‘ iffy ’ until they arrived in the Borders . |
| 10 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 11 | He had n't been aware of any recent marks but , then , he was n't very clever at noticing that kind of detail . |
| 12 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |
| 13 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 14 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |