Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] be [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a senior diplomat said last week : ‘ The people went out and found they were n't struck by lightning . ’ |
| 2 | I opened it and found it was n't signed , so I signed it and used it . |
| 3 | But would it have been fair to point all this out as they nuzzled one another on some Anglian plage and assumed I was n't noticing ? |
| 4 | In a long conversation to another close friend near the end of June , Antonia said she was upset and worried she was n't seeing enough of her Minister . |
| 5 | The babies , the bottles , the cooking , the diapering , the burping , the carriage wheeling , the pressure cooker , the barbecue , the playground and doing-it-yourself was more comfortable , more safe , secure and satisfying than that supposedly glamorous ‘ career ’ in which you somehow did n't feel wanted and knew you were n't going to get anywhere . |
| 6 | She was n't in the habit of lying to Iris and knew she was n't making a particularly good job of it . |
| 7 | And I waited behind there till quarter past six and thought she was n't coming , and so I got out from behind the pillar … and she got out from behind hers ! |
| 8 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 9 | So we have put a marker in the ground and said we are not going to move forward in the production investment phase until we are satisfied that we have a fixed price at that point so we are actually going to cap our liabilities for Eurofighter with a max price for the whole of the remainder of the programme and then we will fix the price and hopefully get some economies from fixing at that point in time before we move forward into the next phase . |
| 10 | Somebody nodded and s that way and said it was n't agreed but er it is actually anybody who 's going on a bona fide training course organized by their respective union , the T U C er a local college or whatever , a shop , a shop registered shop steward does get paid release for that er training . |
| 11 | actually married and said she was n't looking forward to going , but I 'd imagined she would enjoy it when she got there |
| 12 | Her representative rang and said she was n't coming on . |
| 13 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 14 | I did n't know until eleven o'clock that night he rang up and said I 'm not coming home . |
| 15 | ‘ One barged past me and said I was not going to be taking the car away and became abusive . |
| 16 | Yeah I rang up and said I was n't gon na go the children . |
| 17 | In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable . |