Example sentences of "n't [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 2 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd be alive today if it was n't for that . ’ |
| 4 | If it were n't for that bloody fire , you 'd never ‘ a ’ brought that damned woman and her brats to this house . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't be a cook if it was n't for that . |
| 6 | Weenie would be normal enough , I think , if it were n't for that . |
| 7 | ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars ! |
| 8 | He then pointed to his helmet and was heard to say ‘ If it was n't for that I 'd be dead . ’ |
| 9 | It 's cos I was n't for that . |
| 10 | Could n't for that could you ? |
| 11 | If it was n't for that I 'd I so , ca n't get what I should of done . |
| 12 | If it was n't fer that bullet wound 'e got , Billy would be defendin' the championship by now . ’ |
| 13 | Well , may well be , but er , I was n't after that Has anybody think of anything ? |
| 14 | But this car was n't of that sort . |
| 15 | Oh dear I could n't of that . |
| 16 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 17 | It just is n't like that anywhere else . |
| 18 | Compare them with a tanker full of chemicals which are corrosive , taint water at minute levels and kill living organisms at low doses : PCBs are n't like that . |
| 19 | One of the most enduring and widespread of these prejudices , which achieved the status of a popular myth , was that ‘ things were n't like that in my day ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Pop , it was n't like that . |
| 21 | It was n't like that in London . |
| 22 | It was n't like that . |
| 23 | ‘ But it was n't like that at all . |
| 24 | It was n't like that at all . |
| 25 | I had the idea that it was going to be ‘ Do this , do that ’ but it was n't like that . |
| 26 | ‘ Women are n't like that . |
| 27 | You 've made the characters intelligent , and life is n't like that . |
| 28 | It was a particular thing , an episode , a historical event , one ca n't extract a world meaning from it , or a cosmic signal , history is n't like that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Wait a minute — it was n't like that at all , not like that . |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't like that . |