Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you obviously were n't Harold . |
| 2 | IT SCORES , BUT IT JUST IS N'T CRICKET |
| 3 | IT SCORES , BUT IT JUST IS N'T CRICKET |
| 4 | But trading standards officers Peter Pawlowski , David Ravenscroft , Kevin Mitchell and Tony Quigley plus pal David Smith decided it just was not cricket . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing . |
| 6 | Yet it still is not death — |
| 7 | It still was n't time to let them come and go as they pleased . |
| 8 | that and it probably was n't oak at all it was probably just |
| 9 | He developed Truscott in Ken 's image , but it really was n't Ken . |
| 10 | That 's not my strong suit , and it certainly is n't Mrs Foster 's . |
| 11 | Now it 's not John Major and it 's not Martin Brandon Bravo and it 's not the Sheriff although we 're thinking on the right lines there , and it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough and it certainly is n't Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either . |
| 12 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ I do n't know which constituency Mr Fallon has been canvassing but it certainly is n't Darlington . |
| 13 | But whoever they were hiding their affair from , it certainly was n't Danson 's wife Casey , 54 . |
| 14 | It certainly was n't Caroline . |
| 15 | It certainly was n't meanness — he was the most generous of men with his money , his time and his affections . |
| 16 | It certainly was n't Foster 's idea of an easy tour , lurking in a cold , draughty doorway in a poorly lit service alley , in weather conditions more suited to a horror movie set . |
| 17 | The trouble was , Maggie 's legs were trembling , and it certainly was n't fear . |
| 18 | But airport official Frank Walton , who is in charge of private plane facilities , said : ‘ I spoke to the man who said he was the pilot of the plane several hours after the landing and he definitely was n't John Travolta . ’ |