Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [that] it [be] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you remember , you had told me it was over and I was … persuading you that it was n't , ’ he reminded her unwillingly . |
| 2 | Her old self would have seemed like light-years away as well if Mr Know-it-all did n't keep reminding her that it was n't . |
| 3 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 4 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it is n't possible , that I imagined it . ’ |
| 5 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |