Example sentences of "n't [prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie . |
| 2 | And she 'll get all I have , which is n't to be sneezed at . ’ |
| 3 | If you were n't to be turned into a zombie , a walking automaton , in the absence of other night-people , incidents had to be manufactured . |
| 4 | Dana made her intentions very clear and she was n't to be turned from her objective by the sight of Roman kissing Claudia . |
| 5 | But their choices remained either in the storeroom or in the window because her father had made it a rule that the window was n't to be cleared until the day before Christmas Eve . |
| 6 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 7 | They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to . |
| 8 | So I , I would n't to be drawn on that Royal Doulton was late into this cycle and it 's a little later than the publishing companies coming out . |
| 9 | Typical Catholicism was n't to be found in St Peter 's , or Chartres , but in some mean , low-roofed parish church , where hideous plaster saints simpered along the wall , and the bored congregation , pressed perspiration tight into the pews , rested their fat arses on the seats , rattled their beads , fumbled for their smallest change , and scolded their children . |
| 10 | There 's nothing wrong with them as such but he says the real satisfaction is n't to be found in them , it 's within you . |