Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My survival plan spun into action the other week with that hard-fought point against Northtown , and although we went down 4–1 against Clansford United I was not unduly worried — every well-oiled engine needs a little fine tuning . |
| 2 | I was not critically or sceptically inclined . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was not wholly serious about this , however , because I did not sell Hyde 's flat or destroy his clothes . |
| 4 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 5 | But , because I felt even further away from being masculine , I was forced to amend this self-assessment and tell myself that I was not yet feminine . |
| 6 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 7 | I was not yet aware of other reasons . |
| 8 | I was not yet used to school life . |
| 9 | I was n't brave then ; I was never brave , but I was not yet broken . |
| 10 | ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph . |
| 11 | I was not completely serious myself anyway . |
| 12 | But I was not completely English . |
| 13 | He told me that I was not badly hurt , and that the plan to catch Johann had been successful . |
| 14 | ‘ My past has caught up with me , I was not fast enough in building my machine . ’ |
| 15 | I was not just a printer 's ‘ devil ’ ( name applied to an apprentice ) but a much exploited ( though dedicated ) slave . |
| 16 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |
| 17 | I thought that there must be something wrong with me , and I had to do something to prove that I was not just a thing which other people used , of value only because you , Papa , are so enormously rich . |
| 18 | If I was not similarly open , it is merely because my embarrassments can only be laid at the door of my own folly , and not to the workings of chance . ’ |
| 19 | It was about the inevitability of anxiety , yet its effect on me was not palliative , I was not mildly reassured . |
| 20 | All quite harmless fun , no doubt — even Karen was n't going to seduce her husband 's partners teenage son — but I was not best pleased , especially since Tibbs showed no reciprocal interest in me . |
| 21 | I was not altogether unhappy at the Publicity Printers during those early pioneer days . |
| 22 | I was not altogether explicit about it to myself at first , but the tactics clarified themselves in my mind . |
| 23 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 24 | At the time I was not even listening properly . |
| 25 | We were talking about a point and I was not even particularly annoyed . |
| 26 | I was not even going to get a lift to Thurso out of it . |
| 27 | Perhaps I ought to point out , in closing , that I was not instrumental in organising the petition ( in fact , I was not even asked to sign it ) . |
| 28 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 29 | I was not even aware that , until I had my first bought suit , that flies had been invented ! |
| 30 | Slaven added : ‘ I was disappointed and hurt that I was not even on the bench . |