Example sentences of "that it was n't [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as they cuddled the dead baby they realised that it was n't their child . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , but only on the grounds that it was n't their fault . |
| 3 | Except that it was n't her name that she carved into the yielding stone , but her sister 's . |
| 4 | Dot knew that Mrs Hollidaye would come to comfort her , to reassure her that it was n't her fault . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , ’ she began , ‘ Daddy has n't got the new one , after all — ’ And then she stopped , for she saw , now that the van had sped closer , that it was n't her daddy 's , after all , but one just like it . |
| 6 | She 'd always known that it was n't her sort of outfit ! |
| 7 | Oh , heavens , she thought , and tried to discount a dreadful feeling that it was n't his secretary so much that he was furious to see , but her ! |
| 8 | Yet she asked again , and this time , though his mind was stewed in bliss , the tiny voice of reason murmured that it was n't his lady who was asking the question at all , but the woman on the telephone . |
| 9 | Watching the event on TV it was clear that it was n't his putter that was the problem . |
| 10 | He was glad that it was n't his job to catch the Whistler . |
| 11 | ‘ That it was n't his fault . |
| 12 | Pot ‘ Mr Major 's first comment when he finally emerged blinking from the air raid shelter last week was to protest that it was n't his fault — it was the markets that were irrational . |
| 13 | It came back , like a pain , temporarily dulled by drugs , in the terrible early hours in Emily 's bed where he lay , awake and fretful , scourged by his conscience or his sense of preservation , or whatever it was he had so recklessly ignored , tensed for another screaming fit and wondering how he would explain to Brenda that it was n't his fault . |
| 14 | Leonard stayed like Breavman at the International Student 's House , from whose lofty heights he could see across New York ‘ relieved that it was n't his city , ’ in the day wandering all over New York ‘ to stare and taste at will . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My government wants your assurance that it was n't my fault . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why ca n't you accept that it was n't your fault ? |