Example sentences of "was n't [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't presented with the full facts . |
| 2 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |
| 3 | I was n't writing about the situation editorially , it 's not my part . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He was n't killed by the rockfall , ’ the Doctor continued . |
| 5 | Are you sure he was n't killed in the war ? |
| 6 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 7 | It was n't dropping through the thin wisps of cloud up there , it was simply pushing them aside . |
| 8 | My confidence was n't enhanced by the limited number of blue glass bottles and jars comprising the available pharmaceuticals — chloroform , morphia , prussic acid , cannabis , strychnine , atropine . |
| 9 | It was n't run by the school as such , or anything , it just just kind of happened but the er I mean teachers or anybody like that was never involved in it . |
| 10 | It was n't painted by the pupil of a fine painter , carrying out someone else 's wishes . |
| 11 | Now that Pearce had openly stated that the evidence had been planted , he was n't reacting in the way that he 'd ever have guessed . |
| 12 | This list was n't compiled on the spur of the moment . |
| 13 | He felt a heat rising to his face that was n't caused by the sun . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway ah was n't lookin' at the corpse , ah was watching TV . |
| 15 | I was n't thinking about the hundred ; it 's great batting with Jack because he 's so positive . |
| 16 | She was n't dressed for the occasion : no gown , no satin slippers , no tiara . |
| 17 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 18 | No she was n't laying on the floor when she had this on , took it off when she sat down |
| 19 | WITH its lacy bargeboards and dramatic finials echoing the original features of this Norfolk rectory , it 's difficult to imagine the conservatory was n't built by the same Victorian craftsmen . |
| 20 | On August 8 Johnny Marr , who was n't consulted about the above communication , issued this reply to the NME : ‘ There is nothing approaching acrimony between myself and the other members of the band . |
| 21 | But I was n't consulted about the cover . |
| 22 | ‘ And I was n't kidding about the market . |
| 23 | Contrary to Stu 's reports , I was n't deported from the Netherlands for looking like E. Cantona ! |
| 24 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 25 | Time after time he defended himself from Carter , time after time the screw intervened , again and again he was n't pushed to the floor . |
| 26 | The problems arise through what I call ‘ rural conveyancing ’ because years ago such conveyancing was n't done with the necessary attention to detail . ’ |
| 27 | It is really my own it was n't given by the government I paid for it . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't Caspar in the field . |
| 29 | She was n't tempted in the least , as she was far too tired . |
| 30 | At the beginning of May the revised May Day Manifesto was launched at Camden Town Hall , on a sunny Saturday afternoon which was n't matched by the tempers or harmony of the participants . |