Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's this terrible pseudo-rational nagging by just carrying on normally , as if she were n't nagging me at all . |
| 2 | The police were expecting a peaceful demonstration , the demolition contractors were n't expecting one at all . |
| 3 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 4 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 5 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
| 6 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 7 | I 'm not having it er she did n't do the , when she said to me I want to speak to you about it , she said , you know , she was n't involving me at all was she ? |
| 8 | I was n't plotting anything at all . |
| 9 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
| 10 | I was n't expecting anyone at all like you . ’ |
| 11 | It just smelt like Christmas cake cooking , and I was n't cooking anything at all . |
| 12 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
| 13 | She was n't disturbing him at all , said Dyson , swinging round in his chair and resting his elbow comfortably on the stacks of unsubbed copy and uncorrected proofs . |
| 14 | David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time . |
| 15 | It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all . |
| 16 | on the ar , we well you know we 've paid for his education since he was seven because he was n't doing anything at primary school ! |