Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] n't [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er me dad says ooh it 's a video recorder and he , I says no it is n't , he says it is , it 's a video recorder , I says it is n't dad , I said Christ I bloody bought it |
| 2 | We could see it was n't gold , mind you , but it was quite a thing , all the same . |
| 3 | ‘ But we know it was n't ice , ’ said Zona Phillips , who founded ‘ Families for Truth about Gander ’ . |
| 4 | Now we know it was n't John Campbell was at the reiving ? ’ |
| 5 | Shut up said Catherine shortly , we know it was n't Daryl or Alicia because they say so . |
| 6 | I began to wish it was n't Martinho who was my partner in this deadly game of doubles . |
| 7 | Cos somebody might take it was n't money I sent anyway , just an order form |
| 8 | And let us be quite clear that the fact that any particular system does n't go on for ever does n't mean it was n't God 's will when it came in . |
| 9 | The breath hissed from her when she saw it was n't April . |
| 10 | But as soon as I saw that little boy I knew it was n't Ben . |
| 11 | That 's how she knew it was n't Vera . |
| 12 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 13 | Then SHe realised it was n't hir Nathan was frightened of . |
| 14 | I thought it did show up , but I mean it was n't part of it 's a natural part of |
| 15 | All the same he rather hoped it was n't coley , suitable Lenten fare though it might be . |
| 16 | Dionne said it was n't love , but who 's counting ? |
| 17 | Somebody said it was n't cricket , old boy . |
| 18 | Captain Tony Adams had promised Arsenal were ready ‘ to give some unlucky team a tonking ’ , and only the woodwork and some slack second-half finishing ensured it was n't Coventry , although their unbeaten away record was comprehensively shredded . |
| 19 | But the actual answer you got was n't raising it was n't point three recurring , it was point nought three . |