Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] it [be] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 2 | Then I looked at it again and I realized that it was n't too hard . |
| 3 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |
| 4 | Bill : I know that it is n't always possible but the idea is not only not to feel guilty if you do , but to feel quite happy about it and about your lover/lovers doing it too . |
| 5 | Now I protested that it was n't properly decorated yet and that I 'd rather he came when I had it looking its best . |
| 6 | ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock . |
| 7 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 8 | What would I mean if it was n't , if it was if it was erm think of another U K customer . |
| 9 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 10 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 11 | But er I knew that it was n't poss always possible for one to be at the branch meeting you see . |
| 12 | I think that it is n't a general skill it at needs to be commented on , I think that it needs to commented on I think that it ought to be commented on in the comment box . |
| 13 | The crew think this is pretty stupid of them but I wonder if it is n't fantastically mature . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 15 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd have somethin' to say if it was n't . ’ |
| 17 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 18 | ‘ We are , ’ he insisted , his grip on her wrist tightening , ‘ and I wish that it were n't happening — ’ |
| 19 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 20 | But I also think that er the Community Charge as it is being brought in is probably being brought in too sharply which means that it is n't actually taking account of some of the marginal cases where people are going to face a very steep increase in Community Charge bill , er and the Community Charge itself is rather a blunt instrument . |
| 21 | I found it very easy to go into the science sixth and nobody suggested that it was n't a ladylike thing to do . |
| 22 | For a moment Lucy had thought that it was Jeanette McArdle , but then she realised that it was n't . |
| 23 | you know but it was n't any misunderstanding either , he said something |
| 24 | I have n't you know cos it was n't very nice when he brought it . |
| 25 | Yea , drinking 's always got me into trouble in the past , I mean now I 've thought about it , I 've thought what a stupid idiot I 'd be , so you know if it was n't for the course , then I probably would have gone and done it again , you know , without a second thought . |
| 26 | Favourite things are smashed , the car is driven into the wall , the kids are snatched and a complete nervous breakdown later , you confess that it was n't serious anyway . |
| 27 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 28 | But would you admit that it was n't any doings of the Tory group that brought that four hundred thousand pounds in ? |
| 29 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 30 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |