Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should be ashamed to stay where I was n't wanted . |
| 2 | With unfailing respect , may I ask why I was not called on the Yarrow statement ? |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know why I was n't told about this before , ’ complained Dyson . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know why she was n't stopped there , ’ an angry voice from the other side of the room interrupted him . |
| 5 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 6 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 7 | But I do n't know why we were n't alerted sooner . ’ |
| 8 | But I do n't know why we were n't alerted sooner . ’ |
| 9 | Like many of the expatriate teachers here , he obviously has strong sympathies with the Chinese communist line , and that 's probably why we were n't introduced to him by the embassy . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not understand why we were not informed . ’ |
| 11 | Because there was a shortage of pasture in many districts , cattle were allowed to wander freely to search for food , especially during the seasons when they were not wanted for agriculture . |
| 12 | you see Lord is here very splendidly to argue the case and at the moment I 'd like you to address the question , I 'll ask it again , the question is , I think it 's a simple one , it follows from your answer about why the brochures had to be updated , but when there was a time when they were not updated before nineteen eighty nine , there was a risk was n't there that with the brochures printing service charges towards the end of the sales period someone might have been mislead by the brochure ? that 's right is n't it ? |
| 13 | Reports on Nov. 12 said that US officials had confirmed that the final percentage of Warsaw Pact weapons cuts would have been higher had it not been for the removal of large numbers of Soviet tanks and other heavy arms across the Ural Mountains to areas where they were not covered by the Treaty provisions . |
| 14 | Indeed , as Table 3.9 suggests , manufacturing establishments where trade unions were recognised were slightly more likely to use fixed-term contract workers than those where they were not recognised , and the predicted relationship held only for agency workers in service establishments . |
| 15 | The next one is er thinking about the conversations you did not record which of these was the main reason why they were n't recorded please just read out the numbers on the card . |
| 16 | Do n't know what Scott 's already archived but why they were n't put in boxes away somewhere I 've no idea |
| 17 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 18 | If he was so thick-skinned that he could n't see when he was n't wanted then that was his problem . |
| 19 | I guess the fans love him because 1 ) he 's a bloody good player — he proved that at Arse ; 2 ) they think he 's had a bit of a raw deal especially last year when he was n't played and the rest of the team wer n't exactly setting the Premiership on fire ! ! |
| 20 | If the relationship between recall and other measures is entirely mediated by characteristics of the different junctions we would expect to find that within an individual junction there would be no consistent differences between those occasions when it was recalled and those when it was not recalled on any of the other variables . |
| 21 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 22 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 23 | Not her national monument I told her , and she should n't come poking her nose in where it was n't wanted . |
| 24 | He said you 'd been sticking your nose in where it was n't wanted , and had n't heeded warnings from your superiors about giving up finding an espionage connection with Mills ' murder . ’ |
| 25 | The amount of traffic on the route ( see appendix D ) never increased following the improvements at Foxton , so that in an economic sense the lift from the start was required to perform in a situation where it was not needed . |
| 26 | Closer to home were the squat red-brick piggeries , the turkey-huts and chicken-houses , the litter of sheds and lean-tos where he was not allowed to play . |
| 27 | He performed in a hotel where he was not allowed to stay because blacks were barred . |
| 28 | I found the homework , homework diary was useful because I used to check in , end of every of week they used to know if it was n't there I 'd want to know why it was n't done ! |
| 29 | Why do we continue to identify positions in our union rules if we 're not gon na use them , and another point , is the , if rule nineteen was part of an employer 's agreement , we would be first to challenge that agreement and ask why it was not implemented . |
| 30 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |