Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [was/were] n't [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean was n't this , was n't this |
| 2 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 3 | The man you knifed was n't dead when I reached him . ’ |
| 4 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 5 | WHAT WE GOT WAS N'T UNIFIED UNIX IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE |
| 6 | ‘ They should feel angry that the help they needed was n't available . ’ |
| 7 | The few rooms he entered were n't any better . |