Example sentences of "[that] i [was/were] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 2 | All sorts of things seemed to flood in , including the fact that I was not getting on with one of my attendants . |
| 3 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
| 4 | I knew perfectly well when I allowed Karen Parsons to seduce me that I was not acting rightly . |
| 5 | As a researcher , it was very important to be sensitive to these problems and consistently reassure social workers that I was not undertaking any semi-official enquiry , and not looking for particular cases that ‘ go wrong ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I was tremendously lucky that I was not paralysed . ’ |
| 7 | He persuaded them that I was not employed by the Government , explaining that I was under the Emperor 5 personal protection , which accounted for my escort of soldiers . |
| 8 | And I believe I did choose this new life , that I was not coerced . |
| 9 | I was sure that I was not speeding . |
| 10 | I must emphasise that I was not asked to determine the capacity to give consent , but simply to complete the paperwork . |
| 11 | ‘ I told the BMA at our meeting that I was not changing my ground , and after my explanation of the position they accepted my assurance . ’ |
| 12 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 13 | ‘ I was also thinking that I was not feeling very well , I 'm tired , I do n't want to be here . |
| 14 | Each time I had tried to discharge myself from his surgery , he had reassured me that I was not shamming , there really was something wrong with me . |
| 15 | At that moment I decided that I was not going to answer questions about her origins or discuss Shanti in any way in front of her . |
| 16 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
| 17 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 18 | I only hoped , as the sun sank lower and the breeze grew cool , that I was not going to be obliged to use it . |
| 19 | As I entered my fourth lustre , it became evident that I was not going to fulfil my early promise . |
| 20 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 21 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 22 | Noticing that I was not provided for , he slapped his right-side coat pocket and , diving in , produced an opened packet of Gauloise Bleu , from which loose container he took out a cigarette . |
| 23 | Its city centre has many more pedestrian areas than Liverpool yet the great difference is that I was not surrounded by litter and street traders ' stalls unlike Liverpool ( or should I say Litterpool ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was delighted that I was not hurt , and threw the dead rat out of the window . |
| 26 | Upon opening the Carlton Standard 's case , and after being initially overjoyed that I was n't looking at yet another Strat derivative , I must admit that my aesthetic values were backed into a corner while I tried to work out exactly what I was looking at . |
| 27 | Something that I was n't expecting to buy . |
| 28 | Said that I was n't to go to the Lab this morning because Mrs. Schofield wanted me over at Leamings particular . |
| 29 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 30 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |