Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] it [be] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 2 | Like , you could n't have pianos or sax because it was n't hardcore . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have n't you know cos it was n't very nice when he brought it . |
| 8 | you know but it was n't any misunderstanding either , he said something |
| 9 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | but just at the moment in P Way we feel that it is n't possibly going that way |
| 12 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 13 | He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The crew think this is pretty stupid of them but I wonder if it is n't fantastically mature . |
| 16 | We do need to be able to show forgiveness in all the things that we do but it is n't easy and Jesus devotion to is a great challenge to us as to just how far we can go . |
| 17 | ‘ We are , ’ he insisted , his grip on her wrist tightening , ‘ and I wish that it were n't happening — ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Just see if it is n't . |