Example sentences of "were n't [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but these were n't — I mean , they were n't properly in the Prince 's harem . ’ |
| 2 | The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded . |
| 3 | So what we would have been I mean it were n't just at the bottom of the street . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean you were n't here in the office block ? ’ |
| 5 | These are comments about young people which were spoken with a tenor of near hatred at a meeting of a council committee when young people were n't even on the agenda . |
| 6 | And suppose I did get through all they 'd say is it 's nothing to do with them they were n't even in the Company at that time — and how many of them were ? ’ |
| 7 | Poor old Fabian and Spilsbury were n't even in the running where Caitlin was concerned . |
| 8 | ‘ They were n't even around the kitchen . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know you were n't there at the trials . ’ |
| 10 | They were n't out of the woods yet — far from it . |
| 11 | There 's not six men left , and all the cattle are away , for they were n't out at the shielings yet . |
| 12 | They certainly were n't anywhere on the Moon , or anywhere else I 've ever heard of , before or since . |
| 13 | That doll — that knitted gobshite — when that thing spat at you , you were n't anywhere near the window , you were over by the statues , on the other the of the room . |
| 14 | And I , we were n't anywhere near the corner ! |
| 15 | ‘ We were n't anywhere near the island ! ’ |
| 16 | " You were n't always in a gym tunic . |
| 17 | We were n't still in the push-bike and whistle era down here but neither did we have whiz kids from the crime squad on our doorstep to tell us what to do and how to do it . |
| 18 | Maybe some were n't in at the share-out . ’ |
| 19 | There was an agitated rumble from the two committee men , who were n't entirely in the picture . |