Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] was not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 2 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , given the well-known stance of the Seven on political unity , EFTA was not intended to have any political implications , and so it was not deemed necessary for it to have an elaborate institutional structure . |
| 4 | He was naked , and obviously he was not called the biggest chopper in the Brigade for nothing . |
| 5 | In the survey , an unemployed person is defined as anyone aged fifteen and over who was not employed during the week before the interview and who had actually looked for full-time or part-time work . |
| 6 | But they went together down the narrow stone stairway , and still he was not jerked back again . |
| 7 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 8 | The Report was submitted to Mr Baker and Mrs Rumbold by the civil servants , and again I was not invited . |