Example sentences of "not was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several cups of coffee later , and many cigarettes ( not to speak of his midday repast , a small bowl of Rice Crispies — a suitable delicacy , given his previous late night explorative jazz session with Sonny Rollins and the group Was Not Was ) later , he kindly consented to our task : the victim was ours . |
| 2 | That he did not was largely down to an opening seven-frame blast from Parrott . |
| 3 | Whether the king 's subjects were patriotic or not was , for the king , of marginal significance . |
| 4 | WASTE NOT , want not was a keynote in Sam Smiles 's self-help philosophy . |
| 5 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 6 | Which recent Was ( Not Was ) album title concerned offspring incarceration ? |
| 7 | WAS ( NOT WAS ) : ‘ Somewhere in America ( There 's A Street Named For My Dad ) ’ Detroit derived trickster funksters follow their ‘ Shake Your Head ’ hit with a Harry Bowens-sung track packaged with live versions of ‘ Where Did Your Heart Go ’ and ‘ I Blew Up The United States ’ on the CD — out Monday |
| 8 | ‘ One Down ’ treads the fine line between spooky moderne dance and proper fund , much as the young Was ( Not Was ) used to . |
| 9 | That they did not was because they had achieved only conservation of energy in the sense that the amount released exceeded that contained in the mass of a muon . |
| 10 | This wonderful prize celebrates the latest release of the new single Somewhere In America by top U.S. band Was Not Was . |
| 11 | CHARTBUSTERS Was ( Not Was ) wo n't return to France in a hurry after touring for a few miserable days . |
| 12 | WAS ( NOT WAS ) issue a new single on Monday , a version of the mid-'80s INXS hit ‘ Listen Like Thieves ’ . |
| 13 | DAVID WAS WAS ( NOT WAS ) |
| 14 | Then there 's LATER , a new music show which this week has Was ( Not Was ) , Khaled Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and Sugar . |
| 15 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 16 | The rules of the infirmary permitted the honorary medical staff ( and later the house-surgeon ) to take on such pupils , but how many there were at any one time and whether they were resident or not was seldom recorded . |
| 17 | Whether those sentiments , uttered in the heat of the moment , are true or not was beside the point . |
| 18 | We do not think that the decision bears any wider interpretation , and that it does not was also the view of Lloyd L.J . |
| 19 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |
| 20 | Most of the street lamps had switched off automatically but , by an irritating quirk of fate , the one that had not was almost directly in front of the Nowaks ' house . |
| 21 | What she was not was the answer to a policeman 's prayer . |
| 22 | There was only one shot on the Swindon goal all night and that believe it or not was by Town full-back Paul Bodin … |
| 23 | I was not was I ? |
| 24 | The rose bush was not was not pruned this year so I doubt if we 're going to have many flowers . |
| 25 | ‘ The only reason we did n't was a pragmatic one : we had just used ‘ Is Government Dead ? ’ and could n't use it again . ’ |
| 26 | The only time he was n't was on the football field . |
| 27 | Lounge was n't was n't a word that was heard . |
| 28 | What there was n't was any indication whatsoever that Rory had actually written any part of this great work . |
| 29 | The only person that did n't was Fish , who had to save face and went on claiming it was true . |
| 30 | One person who did n't was the police sergeant . |