Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't asked : they were told . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought , ’ said Tessa timidly , ‘ that you said people were n't asked to make other arrangements on this paper ? ’ |
| 3 | Celia and Dougal said nothing , partly because they were n't asked . |
| 4 | The heads of year were n't asked to write anything on their particular year . |
| 5 | So , but , but basically the answer to your question is , if we were n't asked then there 's no requirement for us to give the information . |
| 6 | So when you first go down to the beach , no matter how brown your skin , you should treat it as if you were n't suntanned . |
| 7 | Chances are Sharon , Tracy or Wayne were n't raised on a big country estate with Rupert , William , Sarah and Lucinda . |
| 8 | They were n't presented with ancient symbols of faith with powers to topple a tyranny . |
| 9 | Why is it that these molecules were n't discovered earlier ? |
| 10 | One thing was for sure : they were n't dressed for snow . |
| 11 | If you look at the way they report they remember what their family environment was like , what their home environment was like as as kids erm you find that they generally have much less positive recollections than people who were n't abused as children . |
| 12 | One of Mick 's first jobs concerning David was to organize the arrangements for my album which later became ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd started my album ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ and Mick Ronson was the arranger and producer for a couple of tracks , and David produced a couple of tracks too , but during the making of the album , David became even bigger and bigger in America and the move to America was absolutely imminent so I had to finish my own album without the help of him because he was n't around — which I did . |
| 14 | Professor John Garrow of the Department of Nutrition at St Bartholomew 's hospital in London , and Britain 's foremost authority on weight loss , estimates that around half the slim adult population were n't born with a magic inability to gain weight . |
| 15 | The pursuit of good living is not the innocent thing you would like it to be , my dear ; you were n't born in time to watch my compatriots during the war , the energies they put into it , the boys dying Pour La Patrie while the family at home fought about L'Héritage and assured the survival of La Bonne Cuisine . |
| 16 | ‘ Welshmen were n't born to be right . |
| 17 | I mean , you were n't born here . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You were n't born one . ’ |
| 19 | The other girls , and your father , were n't born yet . ’ |
| 20 | You must have your facts wrong , and you were n't born at Thorn House . ’ |
| 21 | Well that , that was , if you , if you were n't born . |
| 22 | Threats were levelled that if cards were n't filled in by deadlines , good leads would be taken from dealers . |
| 23 | Again we got into time constraints , there was one or two things obviously that were n't filled in , but I think that 's only been nitpicking I think at the time . |
| 24 | Er , it were n't locked up again though were it ? |
| 25 | ‘ You were n't disturbed by any other noises , in the night ? ’ |
| 26 | Then there are batteries for when we 're stopped , but they 'd only last for forty-five minutes , eh ? , if we were n't plugged into the ground supply at a station . |
| 27 | Also to the drivers , who not only drove with such care that the passengers were n't inconvenienced in any way , but also doubled as bike handlers to get the bikes on and off the trailer , inevitably a dirty job . |
| 28 | ‘ Woolley never knew the observers were n't killed until I told him . |
| 29 | The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers . |
| 30 | Rescuers say they 're amazed more people were n't killed . |