Example sentences of "[vb base] they [was/were] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I conclude they were n't related . |
| 2 | I thought it might be easier to get you what you 've got in already you 've still got tea round your mouth and have you cleaned your teeth cause they were n't very clean um you could take Tom 's midnight garden with you |
| 3 | Yeah and I hope they were n't too harsh . |
| 4 | ‘ Better than to prolong it when I was n't particularly comfortable — and I suspect they were n't comfortable with me . ’ |
| 5 | it was a long time ago but as I recall they were n't too bad , to even , if you 'd have stuck at it , you 'd have got better , it 's the same with every job you get better at |
| 6 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |
| 7 | I mean they they stayed in to you know see the work through the processes rather than it all get ruined , because of course you know they were n't er they were n't great er individual capitalists and er capitalistic companies . |
| 8 | Aha , but you know they were n't begging , they all did something ? |
| 9 | Like you know they were n't larking it up . |
| 10 | But suppose they were n't and I accuse him ? |
| 11 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 12 | er policing of the flats , I mean they were n't erm strongly in evidence . |
| 13 | And that that was n't regular , I mean they were n't fighting ? |
| 14 | I mean they were n't aluminium so they blew off I used to wear one of those and er , you know , for safety , you see , but er anyway I survived the survived the war and but wh it 's amazing really when I look back how we d how we managed because we had such nice people in there , as I say and like these actors Jack Claude Cecily . |
| 15 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 16 | but I mean they were n't you know and I mean someone we did n't even know at all , so er you know all erm but I mean Lionel sat with the guy that organized it and the bus driver so he did n't feel out of it , you know , |
| 17 | I mean they were n't very bad or anything but |
| 18 | But the owners of the fish farm — Gale and Ainslie Limited — insist they were n't negligent . |
| 19 | Older members claim they were n't given the opportunity to buy . |
| 20 | And it 's true , I 've seen my husband get water and wash it out well and er put powder and that because , and yet you should n't , you see they were n't safe really but they was that poor love they had to . |
| 21 | She used to tell us about the you see they were n't allowed to make er malt and that . |