Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they were n't , or , you see the other important point here is that British Rail will be restructuring all the twenty five potential passenger franchises , they 're starting on this now |
| 2 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 3 | I mean I did n't find any husbands going out and choosing lampshades , for instance , or they were n't particularly bothered about the colour of curtains . |
| 4 | And they were n't worth transporting all the way back . |
| 5 | I went into Harrods recently and I could n't believe how revolting most of the clothes were — and they were n't cheap , either . |
| 6 | The room was like the train compartment again , their two matching beds , windows on two sides , blinds and curtains , pictures on the walls , a mirror and a place to hang clothes , but everything bigger , and they were n't travelling , and there was more light in the room . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , the air was thick with rockets — and they were n't German ones . |
| 8 | She ‘ knew ’ that she would not be returning ; no-one had ever seen her fridge in need of care and they were n't going to now . |
| 9 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 10 | ‘ I was getting so sick of trying to form groups and they were n't working . |
| 11 | Like an Old English sheep-dog , Hoomey thought , save that her eyes showed , and they were n't doting and soft and brown , but ice-blue and sharp as needles . |
| 12 | I did n't have a theme in social policy or technology ( which was to be dealt with by Channel 4 News ) because it was anticipated that social policy and social issues would be dealt with by these women current affairs ' teams , and they were n't . |
| 13 | And they were n't . |
| 14 | It was n't his case and they were n't suspects , and they must have known that he was no cheerful extrovert , flattered to be the centre of attraction while they bombarded him with questions about Chief Inspector Rickards 's likely methods , the chance of catching the Whistler , his theories about psychopathic killers , his own experience of serial murder . |
| 15 | Well , they had each taken three and they were n't dead yet . |
| 16 | He could not agree with those drivers who were considering refusing to drive , and they were n't — at least in those days — a majority . |
| 17 | ‘ And they were n't interested ? ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 19 | Their feelings were like mine and they were n't the stereotypical bulldykes I had previously imagined them to be . |
| 20 | Continental ? you name it ’ And they were n't kidding . |
| 21 | For these women , coming to terms with the fact that their own children may also have been abused was torture , Hickson says , and they were n't ready to take part in a self-help group . |
| 22 | And they were n't disappointed . |
| 23 | And there used to be sort of a mush made from haricot beans too that people said were baked beans and they were n't it was just sort of white mushy erm white haricot beans with a sort of red colouring poured over the top . |
| 24 | It was , it was used used to be stuff from these restaurants and they were n't particular what they threw in it was all these knives and things |
| 25 | Yeah , this , this is interesting , it gets confusing perhaps because erm , I rang British Section , British Section today erm , enquiring about er , ah , there it is , were , were are we , erm enquiring about er groups having two prisoners you brought this up last time and as the result of me talking to somebody there erm , it became clear that British Section still showed us as having Sabri Lushe as a prisoner , erm and they were n't aware that we were no longer dealing with him , he 'd been released , and what they say is they usually get conformation from International Secretarium |
| 26 | These women were n't entirely defeated , and they were n't yet buried , their resistance could have been called to bear witness , but Orwell himself participated in the struggle for their exclusion by hiding their history . |
| 27 | and they were n't disposable were they ? |
| 28 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 29 | I think that they may be frightened to speak up and that they 're scared that if they say something that they do n't know , like a lot of them do n't know the facts , like today , in the same class as Janine across there , some of them did n't know even the very the pro , progression of the male pill or anything like that , and they did learn a few things but a again they never spoke up and they were n't interested , but I |
| 30 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |