Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] not [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 2 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 3 | I believe her , I trust her and I was not bewitched by her green eyes , owing to the fact that I was on duty at the time . ’ |
| 4 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 5 | I wanted an apology and I was not given one . |
| 6 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 7 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 8 | These were questions you should not have asked , and you were not answered ; but you heard that men were animals , and could not control themselves . |
| 9 | But it did not take your breath quite away and you were not turned upside down , which she hated . |
| 10 | She was not a party to the proceedings and she was not represented before the court . |
| 11 | He would curse when he heard the message , even though tomorrow the string would be doing road work and she was not needed . |
| 12 | So many families had changed sides , and she was not imprisoned , nor even a slave . |
| 13 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 14 | Hardly anyone came near her and she was not told what was to happen . |
| 15 | But nationally and locally because it seems that the answer to crime is , the decision was reached with the Chief Constable and the chairman of the police committee with very little reference to and the deputy and we were not consulted on whether or not it should take place or ask what problems we would encounter we were told it was taking place . |
| 16 | That dispute can not be resolved by this court and we were not asked to do so . |
| 17 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 18 | And they were not mistaken , for He did provide , and provide abundantly : quails and bread , ‘ and he that gathered much had nothing over , and he that gathered little had no lack ; they gathered every man according to his eating . ’ |
| 19 | They were required to leave their beds and get out of the hostel by nine o'clock in the morning , and they were not expected to hang about any more until about five or more in the evening . |
| 20 | Only a small minority of voters in our panel thought that television was biased and they were not agreed upon the direction of that bias . |
| 21 | They were different from other young workers and they were not allowed to forget it . |
| 22 | They were not only pressed into service , but were forced to become Muslims and to learn Turkish , and they were not allowed to marry . |
| 23 | The decisions of regional brewers such as Boddingtons and Greenalls to cease brewing were commercial ones taken by the managements of those companies and they were not forced on them by any of the Government 's measures . |
| 24 | The landlord insisted Mr Brady had agreed to leave of his own free will , and he was not assaulted . |
| 25 | He arrived on time for his appointment and he was not kept waiting ; the receptionist introduced him at once . |
| 26 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 27 | He had plenty of time to prepare this great phrase , for the outrage was said to have happened in 1731 and he was not asked about it until 1738 , but the delay led to no awkward questions ; by the late 1730s Parliament was growing increasingly annoyed with Spanish interference with British trade , and it was not willing to let Walpole go on with his peaceful policy . |
| 28 | That was all he said , and he was not asked to embellish . |
| 29 | A replacement , Thomas Peirson , was not found until Christmas , and he was not appointed formally by the Company until 17th September 1647 , when the Mayor and Alderman had apologised . |
| 30 | Curtis was at that time Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal and he was not motivated in what he did by any particular animus towards Indians . |