Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Uh huh , ’ said I. I was not easily pacified but the show had already been aired . ’ |
| 2 | And I was n't even talking when , I did n't know him from we were talking to him one night . |
| 3 | I was n't totally prepared but I knew what it was like . |
| 4 | I was n't memorably arresting or amusing , and I dare say I fell back on the weather like everyone else , but it worked . |
| 5 | She was n't smartly dressed as he had imagined : a slack grey coat reached halfway down her calves , her hat was in plain brown felt and from under it her hair hung loose . |
| 6 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 7 | His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children . |
| 8 | It was perhaps part of his general attempt to calm her fears , but it is a potent indication that there was an underlying fear and she was not properly informed that no alternative was available . |
| 9 | So she was not only watching but being watched when she thought she was by herself , when she was taking her clothes off and putting them on and so on . |
| 10 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 11 | It was n't straight acting that had captured her imagination , but rather the stage itself . |
| 12 | It does , I mean it 's it was n't clearly formulated until er about nineteen sixty eight I think by Gilbert Harman |
| 13 | Singer Sebastien Bach , at No. 22 with Youth Gone Wild , says : ‘ I wanted kids to know it was n't just junkies or gays who get that disease . |
| 14 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 15 | It was n't much read until they rediscovered it — Virginia Woolf knew it , she adduced it as an image of the essential androgyny of the creative mind — but the new feminists see Melusina in her bath as a symbol of self-sufficient female sexuality needing no poor males . |
| 16 | Charlie was older , of course , but it was n't only age that had changed him . |
| 17 | The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure . |
| 18 | It was not immediately known if anything was found . |
| 19 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 20 | Last night it was not yet known if anything had been stolen . |
| 21 | It was not yet clear that in solving practical problems as in solving those in pure science , one thing leads to another . |
| 22 | Because the hair , too , was black it was hard to be sure that it was not simply matted and dried insects . |
| 23 | Secondly , it was not infrequently commented that exceptional circumstances should be taken into account before a visit was ordered ( for example , checking with the accountant for the reasons for the delay ) . |
| 24 | And following Bull 's press conference last week to announce its 1992 results , it was not altogether clear that its new chief executive Bernard Pache will be the man to lead the company out of the crisis . |
| 25 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 26 | Donna rarely ventured down the wooden ladder into it ; it was not well lit and , despite Ward–s attempts to convince her otherwise , she was certain that the entire cellar was seething with spiders , creatures she was frightened of . |
| 27 | I I I think it , it was not well maintained and rusted , rusted , and rusted and it was just impossible to do anything . |
| 28 | The Foreign Office said it was not closely involved as Mr Yang had requested asylum in Hong Kong . |
| 29 | It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years . |
| 30 | It was not actually needed and was probably hardly worth constructing . |