Example sentences of "but [pers pn] was not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 2 | I was convinced of it , but I was not staked on it . |
| 3 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 4 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 5 | It was hectic , but I was not complaining . ’ |
| 6 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 7 | But I was not watching the couple . |
| 8 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 9 | ‘ Make way for Miss Louise , ’ they chorused , but I was not bothered by their sarcasm : it was the snowballs that some threw that mattered . |
| 10 | My life was being timed but I was not contributing . |
| 11 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 12 | But I was not going to submit to the suffering of being preserved in a past that was not my own . |
| 13 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |
| 14 | But I was not making much progress because I did n't have much mathematical background — and anyway , I might not live long enough to finish my Ph.D . |
| 15 | But I was not rolling in it . |
| 16 | But she was not wanted and knew she never would be . |
| 17 | She did not like walking along the dark road , but she was not getting into a car with five blokes ! |
| 18 | But she was not to force the pace in any way . |
| 19 | But she was not looking at it . |
| 20 | Almost certainly in her eyes , too , but she was not looking , would not look , at Alice ; only said , " Ask the next one to come in . " |
| 21 | But she was not looking forward to the trip . |
| 22 | But she was not silenced for long . |
| 23 | But she was not abdicating responsibility for a fortnight of fun and frolics . |
| 24 | His voice followed her as she stomped back to the cabin , but she was not listening . |
| 25 | She had a glass of gin in her hand , but she was not drinking it , just holding it as if it might offer her the cheer and support that she might not otherwise find elsewhere . |
| 26 | But she was not injured and I 'm really grateful to the firemen . |
| 27 | But she was not imagining things , the latch on the door from the street was being lifted and Hari waited , holding her breath . |
| 28 | But she was not resting in the hollow , she was floating in it . |
| 29 | ‘ Ring the hospital — ’ Tina continued , but she was not to get very far . |
| 30 | She wrote novels about the frontier , about poverty , difficulty , and the American virgin land , but she was not celebrating the American Dream , nor making any Marxist investigation into culture . |