Example sentences of "[adv] were n't [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very simple throw in and er I thought Milwall just were n't geared up on that one at all . |
| 2 | We just were n't treated fairly . ’ |
| 3 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 4 | you would n't you still were n't allowed to go to the funeral ? |
| 5 | ‘ You probably were n't smacked enough as a child . |
| 6 | When the The Raddings prefabs were put up in nineteen forty-six they really were n't meant to last more than ten years . |
| 7 | erm Indeed one of the sad things perhaps at the lowest level is how many jobs are requiring mathematical skills that , that perhaps twenty years ago were n't assumed . |
| 8 | And luckily the bike had fallen on its left side so the gears and chain ring etc were n't damaged . |
| 9 | Those coming locally were n't expected until eight o'clock . |
| 10 | Even the trained nurses who have gone out there were n't prepared for what they saw . |
| 11 | Could I make the point , that I think the footings were already there , because they 'd started their double garage , which they then were n't allowed to have , and I think this is gon na stand on the footings . |
| 12 | Those who have actual memories of the year are unlikely to have been party to the Party that was supposed to be the mythical Swinging Sixties — one of the authors was still unafflicted by puberty while the other was into his third year in a sheet-metal factory , so we certainly were n't invited . |
| 13 | ‘ We certainly were n't intimidated by Torquay and I do n't think it will happen against Hereford either . ’ |