Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it did not take your breath quite away and you were not turned upside down , which she hated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That dispute can not be resolved by this court and we were not asked to do so . |
| 7 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were different from other young workers and they were not allowed to forget it . |
| 12 | They were not only pressed into service , but were forced to become Muslims and to learn Turkish , and they were not allowed to marry . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But you were not sent into exile , or to work in the mines ? ’ |
| 15 | But we were not moved to write about them , possibly because they were so very much themselves , any personal comment of ours might seem an intrusion . |
| 16 | I do n't know what he said to the lady of the house , but we were not invited to return . |
| 17 | If we had been asked , at the issue desk , whether we wanted to return separately , then I could understand it ; but we were NOT ASKED . |
| 18 | ‘ But we were not given an easy ride just because we are an in-house company . |
| 19 | Vice chancellor Oliver Coulthard said : ‘ For the past decade , we have been a university in all but name but we were not accepted into the premier league . |
| 20 | We were even made , in school woodwork , to use the gauge in the left hand , but we were not told why . |
| 21 | But we were not taken into the confidence of those who determined media-generated arguments between agendaless and ideologically bankrupt parties . |
| 22 | But they were not consulted , The Cabinet , had it wished , could of course have staged a revolt , But its collective mind was not nearly clear enough for that , and in any event , Chamberlain , embarrassed by his own self-interest , was almost the only minister who was both strong and wholly secure in his own job . |
| 23 | But they were not deprived of children . |
| 24 | The Macrory review considered the existing proposals for reshaping local government in Northern Ireland but they were not limited to these in making their recommendations . |
| 25 | Recently my female Oscar laid eggs , but they were not fertilised by the male . |
| 26 | All we can say is that assurances were given , and that for a short time they were accepted as having been given in good faith ; but they were not honoured . |
| 27 | Homosexuals must have occurred previously in the family , but they were not recognized . |
| 28 | But they were not nabbed , and the warning was extended by a week . |
| 29 | badge replaced the Croydon Coat of Arms , but they were not repainted and remained in the chocolate and ivory livery . |
| 30 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |