Example sentences of "was n't the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next boat-train was to Ostend — a bit further north than I had anticipated travelling , but that was n't the problem . |
| 2 | It was n't the sort of stuff that love stories are made of , to be honest . ’ |
| 3 | It was n't the way party dialogues were supposed to go . |
| 4 | It was n't the nuns , Harriet , who gave me my guilt , my conscience ( do you have a conscience , Harriet ? ) . |
| 5 | It was n't the first such attack . |
| 6 | They made out I was n't any good at arithmetic , which I was n't , but that was n't the reason . |
| 7 | She was n't the usual gouger element type . |
| 8 | If you wanted some , that was n't the avenue to go down . |
| 9 | But this was n't the London most people think of . |
| 10 | Mine was n't the city of sophisticated , cosmopolitan life . |
| 11 | That was n't the ticket either . |
| 12 | It would be a very sad day if that was n't the case . ’ |
| 13 | It was n't the only one . |
| 14 | He was n't the least bit sympathetic and I was terrified . ’ |
| 15 | She knew very well this was n't the right face . |
| 16 | But it was n't the time for secrets , or the place . |
| 17 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't the usual hind of thing . ’ |
| 19 | IT was n't the only programme last night to shine light into dirty corners . |
| 20 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 21 | This was n't the suicide . |
| 22 | Brecht , whose poetry Canetti admired enormously , was n't the least bit bothered . |
| 23 | That was n't the reason I gave her to David , but because she was a trained dancer and I thought she could help David get the simple steps of the minuet together , because he had difficulty in putting two steps together . |
| 24 | He was n't the Tony DeFries that he became . |
| 25 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 26 | That was n't the point . |
| 27 | He was n't the least bit fashionable , but he certainly had style , the way he shuffled around in sneakers and sweatshirts , hair pointing in all directions , corduroy trousers rumpled and baggy . |
| 28 | Excitement changed to despair as people realized it was n't the bus — only a car , which crawled past us . |
| 29 | And that was n't the only eye-opener which Jane had that day . |
| 30 | It was n't the time to be playing silly games . |