Example sentences of "not were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi goes on to insist that the real witnesses are those who died in the camps , and that those prisoners who did not were mostly compromised people or privileged people : Solzhenitsyn is cited as making the same point about the pridurki — the ‘ prominents ’ of the Gulag system . |
| 2 | Those who did not were also traitors , who would be replaced with his supporters . |
| 3 | Most people forgot about him ; and the majority of those who did not were unpleasant . |
| 4 | " The boy ; they were n't there when we went in nor were they around on the two occasions I checked the street , not were they there when I accompanied the doctor to the cab . " |
| 5 | The tears she should have shed movingly on television but had not were there now , clear to see , brimming in her eyes , absurdly beautiful in the slanting sunlight . |
| 6 | Naturalists of any repute were soon expected to go on expeditions , and those who did not were criticised for their lack of field experience . |
| 7 | Yesterday a dream died in Galway … a dream which had been born in the heady , optimistic days of the early 1970s when bright-eyed youngsters leaving school walked in the doors of the Digital plant and more often than not were given a job . |
| 8 | and those who would n't were n't interested |
| 9 | Most of the windows were broken , and those that were n't were boarded over . |
| 10 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 11 | Were n't were n't you afraid you 'd do something wrong ? |
| 12 | Oh no you were n't were you ? |
| 13 | Oh we were n't were we Ton ? |
| 14 | No you were n't were you ? |