Example sentences of "[was/were] n't be " in BNC.
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| 31 | No you were n't were you ? |
| 32 | Well it w was n't , it were n't was n't mine , one of my nice friends was it ? |
| 33 | who was Jack The Ripper ? , he were n't was he ? |
| 34 | And the only reason I was n't is , well , because of us . ’ |
| 35 | The only time he was n't was on the football field . |
| 36 | Lounge was n't was n't a word that was heard . |
| 37 | What there was n't was any indication whatsoever that Rory had actually written any part of this great work . |
| 38 | But what there was n't was a magazine , a newspaper of the emerging movement . |
| 39 | I mean was n't was it less attractive |
| 40 | And as I say that was fifty or something a week and it was n't was n't worth it really . |
| 41 | Yes yours is folded up , my was n't was it ? |
| 42 | It was n't was it ? |
| 43 | I know you was n't was you Leigh ? |
| 44 | Pursuing legal action would have cost them money they did n't have ( unless it meant selling their house which was not an option ) but doing nothing left them with the feeling that justice was n't being done . |
| 45 | Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he was n't being moved sideways or demoted . |
| 46 | Mild advice to stop shouting and come back to bed because he was n't being very effective did little to deter Charles from a sense of deep injustice . |
| 47 | When his or her car was n't being illegally clamped , stolen , broken into , photographed by a Gatso camera or failing the MoT emissions test , it was costing an arm and a leg to insure . |
| 48 | She was n't being humiliated , she was just doing her job . |
| 49 | And she was n't being ironic : she truly meant it . |
| 50 | Then about four days later it was pointed out to me that a real earthquake actually hit Germany last week , and she was n't being poetic at all , and I actually felt cheated of the wave of emotion I had felt towards her . |
| 51 | He enclosed a sample of cloth with his letter to prove his words and demonstrate that he was n't being unduly extravagant . |
| 52 | I was obsessed with the way they looked , but I knew I was n't being told the whole story about them . ’ |
| 53 | I 'm a keen gardener , and someone told me that Pat Weaver 's patch was n't being used . |
| 54 | But for this there was a price to pay : when I was n't being ignored completely , I was being made fun of , especially in regard to my physical appearance which was frequently compared to that of a twelve-year-old boy . |
| 55 | I knew I was n't being terribly respectful , but I just cupped the telephone , looked her up and down and said : ‘ Well , you could put some shoes on . ’ |
| 56 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 57 | It was a tragedy that this match was n't being shown on television back home — Pickering |
| 58 | ‘ It was n't being noble or any of that sort of saliva , ’ he said afterwards . |
| 59 | But a man who claimed that his wife was n't being affectionate enough was refused a divorce — she was n't being unreasonable , that 's just the kind of woman she was . |
| 60 | But a man who claimed that his wife was n't being affectionate enough was refused a divorce — she was n't being unreasonable , that 's just the kind of woman she was . |