Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not her he was in love with . |
| 2 | This period was not one he was particularly expert in , but he knew enough to be impressed by the handiwork . |
| 3 | His tone made it clear the job was not one he had enjoyed . |
| 4 | The checks of his three-piece suit were large and loud enough to be migraine-inducing , and the tie , although defiantly striped , was not one she recognised . |
| 5 | The subject of Arnie was not one she wished to discuss with Guido . |
| 6 | I 'm hot pardon me it was not me it was my tea |
| 7 | That is the same as pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 8 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food , it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 9 | it was not me it was my food , it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 10 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 11 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 12 | Pardon me for being rude , it was not me it |
| 13 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 14 | The huge armies of mailed knights and disciplined infantry was not what they had expected . |
| 15 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 16 | If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors . |
| 17 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 18 | Although , as an exercise against Republican democracy , the military rising of 18 July 1936 had had the backing of all who had sympathized with the Nationalist cause , there were many who felt that the result of the war — a military dictatorship — was not what they had intended . |
| 19 | Secondly , and far more important , the main factor in most men 's standard of living was not what they could earn but what they could produce , and here conditions were dominated not by economic relationships with other men but by something far more basic , the annual and unpredictable variations in the weather and the effects which this would have on the harvest . |
| 20 | But the response was not what they wanted to hear . |
| 21 | Pocock 's method of ‘ shifting the belly band ’ or adjusting the bridle link position was not what we currently accept as a 2-line system.That described by J.Woodbridge Davis in Aeronautics of August 1894 for his method of steering a life-saving device undoubtedly was a progenitor of what we use today . |
| 22 | That was not what we wanted . |
| 23 | Politics for people like him was not what you said , but what you did . |
| 24 | That is now the end because of the difference of one A but if you 're proposing that this comes at the end of one A , you 're proposing to tack it on to the end of roman numeral three in the labour amendment as was the council 's which I take it , was not what you intend its effect to be . |
| 25 | I would n't describe anything that was not what I had gone through and understood myself — in my experience or out of my imagination and other people 's words would n't do . |
| 26 | I knew with absolute clarity that this was not what I wanted . |
| 27 | This was not what I wanted . |
| 28 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 29 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 30 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |