Example sentences of "and [pers pn] were not " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of these special Cabinet committees really did anything : it did n't matter a damn that people like Wedgie [ Mr Benn ] and me were not on SEP [ Steering Committee on Economic Policy ] or OPD [ Oversea Policy and Defence ] . |
| 2 | But of course , five years difference meant that he and I were not relating as equals until I was about sixteen , and then the war separated us . |
| 3 | It seemed that Ellen and I were not the only ones to take such a precaution , for late that night Jackson Chatterton lumbered on deck with a bottle in one huge hand . |
| 4 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 7 | Wu and I were not us — not in any way . |
| 8 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 9 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 10 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 11 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it did not take your breath quite away and you were not turned upside down , which she hated . |
| 14 | Tell the truth , English , the thing that sticks in your throat is that we were successful and you were not . ’ |
| 15 | Also me feelings go to my english friends today — i watched some 30 mins of highlights on TV and you were not ex. lucky — Ronald Koeman ( correct spelling , guys ! ) should clearly have been sent off . |
| 16 | The route was obvious , we were all experienced and we were not exactly alone . |
| 17 | ‘ Our original tour , in 1987 , was cancelled because of the World Cup and we were not due to visit New Zealand again until 1996 , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The lights came up and we were not in that magic world beyond the screen but back in the familiar tawdry surroundings of Sneinton , Notts . |
| 19 | Millar said : ‘ The WEA was subsidised by the state and we were not . |
| 20 | Millar said : ‘ The WEA was subsidised by the state and we were not . |
| 21 | This , however , was a determined pack and we were not going to be put off by small obstacles like being unable to stand up or walk forward . |
| 22 | We did not have the time to visit the swimming-pool three times a week , and we were not interested in pumping iron or trundling around on an exercise bike every morning . |
| 23 | Eventually she admitted to us that Charlie was stealing them to sell and we were not to mention it . |
| 24 | It turned out she was just as fed up as me , and we were not the only ones . |
| 25 | That dispute can not be resolved by this court and we were not asked to do so . |
| 26 | Neither Tandri nor Yong knew — and we were not about to tell them — that we no longer had enough money left to make a single call . |
| 27 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 28 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 29 | And we were not too keen on it at that time but had been all right . |
| 30 | The release of PGE 3 , however , was below the detection limit of our combined HPLC method , and we were not able to detect if such an enhanced response is also present in eicosapentaenoic acid fed rats . |