Example sentences of "as [pers pn] was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Bernard suggested taking part himself , an idea which was vetoed however , as his was not the name associated with the company . |
| 2 | She believed she lay before him as golden-white as he , the amber budded on her breasts , the fleece of her groin indigo-black , dosed and secretive as his was not . |
| 3 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 4 | As I was not pleased with this , and indeed a little sorrowful that my brother should take pleasure in another 's company , I went to bed early and lay listening to the West Wind howling round the turrets and after a while fell into an uneasy slumber . |
| 5 | I thought little about this prospect or indeed , about the opposition , as I was not intending to go the full distance after my exertions in the previous day 's 10K . |
| 6 | On catching sight of me she threw up her head , and as I was not looking in her direction she stood stock still , as these animals have a habit of doing when they are under the impression that they have not been seen . |
| 7 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 8 | Erm I 'm also , I 'm bound to say er not the whole issue that I counted the votes for correctly as I was not expecting the outcome . |
| 9 | As she was not in receipt of Old Age Pension , she was a lot younger than the other ladies , her church allowance was 4/ per week . |
| 10 | But the widow of a vassal was commonly at the disposal of the vassal 's lord : so long as her consent was obtained ( by whatever means ) and so long as she was not disparaged , she could be married to whom the lord chose . |
| 11 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 12 | The client was not able to sign a green form to obtain advice as she was not in receipt of income support but has been advised to make a claim for income support since she is not receiving the maintenance . |
| 13 | She was already feeling a bit better and she felt quite amused at this cool domination , especially as she was not going to pay any attention to it . |
| 14 | He had said she was beautiful and called her Felipe 's woman , but obviously the count was not about to enlighten her on that particular score , and as she was not revealing her knowledge of his language she had to let it go . |
| 15 | The club have kept this one very quiet as it was not expected that Hanley , who returned from a summer in Australia with a bad pelvic strain , would come back before the New Year . |
| 16 | At first , this stress on ‘ natural religion ’ , as it was called , did not necessarily mean the abandonment of Christianity as revealed in the Scriptures ; so long as it was not inconsistent with reason , it could be accepted . |
| 17 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 18 | However , as it was not on the list submitted to Angell and Pownall for examination , his design was probably never tested for its practicality or compliance with the conditions , and must have been brought to the lay judges ' attention after the assessors had completed their work . |
| 19 | I ate at the Corner House , very little , as it was not easy to pay the modest sum my landlady in Southwark , Mrs William Vitou , whose husband was a dental mechanic trained in Guy 's hospital , charged me , and eat a great deal apart from breakfast and a high tea . |
| 20 | As regards the claim in respect of additional lighting , he said that Wimpy International v Warland had decided that lighting that did no more than provide general illumination was not plant , as it was not used for carrying on the business . |
| 21 | Anything qualifies , as long as it was not previously known . |
| 22 | For example where the handbrake of a motor car is released and the car is allowed to run down a hill by itself the offence under section 12 would not be committed as it was not for his or another 's use . |
| 23 | I had decided that , much to my regret , it would not be possible to plan a DIY funeral for myself as it was not a job I would bequeath to friends , and my nearest close relations who might have co-operated were overseas . |
| 24 | In Anderson 's terms , they ‘ struggled ’ and education may have seemed a little remote to them as it was not freely available in most parts of the West Indies until the 1940s . |
| 25 | A lifestyle involving hard work , charity , abstinence from drink , strict morality , and thrift was deemed absolutely essential , as it was not only insisted on in the Bible , but was also seen as a sign of an individual 's elect status . |
| 26 | It therefore asserted what it considered to be the position at which the public/private distinction should be fixed , a position which would allow prostitution to be effectively a private matter as long as it was not conducted on the streets . |
| 27 | To these can be added rough figures from Staincline wapentake in Yorkshire , where status had to be inferred as it was not recorded . |
| 28 | Our dependence on Suger 's Life as the chief source for Louis VI 's reign makes his interpretation inescapable for us , as it was not for his contemporaries . |
| 29 | As the company was not a party , discovery as understood in England was not available ; as it was not within the United Kingdom no subpoena duces tecum could be issued ( and that would only secure the production of documents at the trial , not for pre-trial inspection ) . |
| 30 | Usury was forbidden , as it was not by Rome . |