Example sentences of "but i [was/were] [not/n't] [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 I was n't screaming at Finn , ’ said Lydia . |
| 17 | But I was n't looking for anything in it . |
| 18 | Please excuse me , but I was n't expecting … ’ |
| 19 | But I was n't thinking of hiring the Earl of Lichfield and a lot of London models . |
| 20 | But I was n't thinking about it then . |
| 21 | But I was n't thinking straight . |
| 22 | But I was n't eating or anything , I mean |
| 23 | But I was n't listening . |
| 24 | ‘ I heard your voices , but I was n't listening . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , I admit it was rather clever of you to engineer that intimate little scene we 've just shared , but I was n't fooled . |
| 26 | And then he goes , he goes erm it 's , it gets erm it really gets to me when I think people are chewing around school , I do n't know what to do to stop people and I was n't chewing , yes well it looked like chewing , but I was n't chewing ! |
| 27 | It was a great learning experience and I needed that time , but I was n't moving in leaps and bounds . |
| 28 | ‘ But I was n't trying to interest him ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't like mine , but I was n't voting for him . |
| 30 | But I was n't smelling the smoke . |