Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We are , ’ he insisted , his grip on her wrist tightening , ‘ and I wish that it were n't happening — ’ |
| 18 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 19 | For a moment Lucy had thought that it was Jeanette McArdle , but then she realised that it was n't . |
| 20 | you know but it was n't any misunderstanding either , he said something |
| 21 | I have n't you know cos it was n't very nice when he brought it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But would you admit that it was n't any doings of the Tory group that brought that four hundred thousand pounds in ? |
| 26 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 29 | A little too late , she remembered that it was n't a good idea to goad Julius 's temper into life . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's wrong with him ? ’ she asked , praying with all she had that it was n't serious . |