Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked to Mrs for guidance ; she looked amused , so I surmised it was not the inception of a punishment for my earlier and inconvenient frankness . |
| 2 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 3 | Symphony because I felt it was not the right tempo . |
| 4 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 5 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 6 | Now I knew it was not merely for urinating . |
| 7 | Dead before I knew it was not my anger killed her , dead before I told her how much I loved her . |
| 8 | ‘ We sat on the sofa clinging on to one another until we stopped sobbing but I knew it was not over for her . ’ |
| 9 | I knew it was not right , |
| 10 | But it was not Maria ; a whiteness , a flowing whiteness , a long coat or a dressing-gown — I had only a second 's sight , but I knew it was a woman and I knew it was not an old woman . |
| 11 | I knew it was not on a gramophone ; someone was playing it . |
| 12 | But even as I heard it , I knew it was not a revolver . |
| 13 | The coach went past me , and for a moment I thought it was not going to stop . |
| 14 | She found it was not possible even to get up out of her seat without shoving people , elbowing her way , pushing past them . |
| 15 | It was not so , at the beginning of each new term she found it was not so , but it seemed to be so , and the same mixture of guilt and hate and sorrow would strike her anew , each time as forcefully , each time she got off the train at Northam Station . |
| 16 | She considered approaching him and asking if it might be possible for them to spend more time together , but the difference of nine years in their age put her in awe of him still , and she decided it was not her place to make such suggestions . |
| 17 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 18 | She knew it was not sane . |
| 19 | Now , in daylight , she knew it was not something to fear . |
| 20 | She knew it was not a game any more . |
| 21 | But even as she seethed she knew it was not true . |
| 22 | She knew it was not the correct mode of address but she felt a little odd , outside reality , and was afraid she was about to dissolve into tears . |
| 23 | She knew it was not her father-in-law , Rabbi Moishe , he was searching for — the Rabbi would be in a waiting-room with the President 's party — but for their son , Jacob . |
| 24 | The report states : ‘ She knew it was not right in him to act as he did and … she knew it was not right in herself in permitting him … she knew it was wrong in both , and that it was against her will at all the tunes . ’ |
| 25 | The report states : ‘ She knew it was not right in him to act as he did and … she knew it was not right in herself in permitting him … she knew it was wrong in both , and that it was against her will at all the tunes . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Surely you knew it was not my wish to have you here this evening . ’ |
| 27 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 28 | She remembered it was not a game any more . |
| 29 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 30 | She wished it were not so . |