Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] n't [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I know I was n't born to be a size eight or 10 , ’ she says . |
2 | Fortunately I was n't expecting to be lecturing , but er , |
3 | What I was n't prepared for was the jolt your appearance gave me . |
4 | What I was n't prepared for was my reaction to her rejection . |
5 | ‘ I was n't meaning to be rude when I said you had n't changed . ’ |
6 | I was n't going to be greedy . |
7 | It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade . |
8 | ‘ I was also afraid that I was n't going to be fed properly . |
9 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
10 | I said I was n't going to be , and I was already doing scientific research with you . |
11 | I was n't going to be no whore in Nassau . |
12 | I felt if I mentioned them [ the symptoms ] they 'd think I was skiving or malingering or being a hypochondriac or neurotic , and I was n't going to be labelled as those things . ’ |
13 | And I said smoothly that of course I did , for I was n't going to be inveigled into an emotional uproar . |
14 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
15 | A faint tinkle of metal told me that Shep was lurking there in his kennel and I slowed my steps ; I was n't going to be caught again . |
16 | After all the ditches I 'd waded through I was n't going to be defeated now — and only a few yards ahead was the blessed sea . |
17 | I was n't going to be cheated out of my Day to Remember , oh no , and neither was she . |
18 | I warned you I was n't going to be able to consider you and any doubts , hesitations or scruples you might have this time around , and I should have remembered that . |
19 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
20 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |
21 | But if trouble came looking for me I was n't going to be hard to find . |
22 | I was n't going to be left here on my own . |
23 | If I had left you , then I was n't expected to be … ’ |
24 | As you prepare to give your patch of grass its final once-over , it 's a good time to make sure you are n't going to be a tragic statistic next year . |
25 | There 's serious talking to be done this week , especially is it now seems you are n't going to be able to escape an intense situation as quickly as you 'd hoped . |
26 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
27 | They could n't tell you off for not turning off the lights but you were n't meant to be out of your dorm or even out of bed . |
28 | Erm er , very concerned as to what it was going to lead up to up , and hoping , you know , against hope that 's you were n't going to be involved in anything like that . |
29 | After all , here you are in Nicole 's hotel bedroom , obviously believing that you were n't going to be finding a third party here as well . |
30 | Well you were n't going to be anyway because you er , oh it 's on tonight is it ? |