Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , but , but basically the answer to your question is , if we were n't asked then there 's no requirement for us to give the information . |
| 2 | For instance you could n't , like nowadays , tighten up a slack scene where people were n't picking up their cues so quickly by cutting out a few pauses here and there . |
| 3 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 4 | Were Lineker were n't playing where he ? |
| 5 | And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector . |
| 6 | As David Ryan , the drummer with big , bright eyes that explode out of his skull , who 's stuck with Evan longer than most , puts it : ‘ If things were n't going well I would n't be here , I 'd have flown home weeks ago . ’ |
| 7 | No in eighty four they they were n't going under they were |
| 8 | We were n't told where we were going . |
| 9 | at all , but he were n't , you know , he were n't signalling where he was going he was just talking |
| 10 | ‘ I was n't watching where I was putting my feet . |
| 11 | ‘ He was n't moving so I started to give him mouth to mouth . ’ |
| 12 | You you you used to break windows but it was n't done like you see now people , kids s picking up bricks and just breaking a window for the sheer delight of it . |
| 13 | She came out of the room , pulling her bag of soiled linen , and because she was n't looking where she was going , almost cannoned into a tall dark girl . |
| 14 | And your Governor was n't looking where he was going , it was very silly of him . |
| 15 | Zacharias was a minor painter when he was n't living off his mistresses , and reputedly a dissolute . |
| 16 | And he was n't getting off her bed . |
| 17 | The other one was n't sent home it was kept here . |
| 18 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 19 | And Andrew , he was n't started so he jumped |
| 20 | At the moment the solicitor has the report , which it took Derek quite a while to find , cos it was n't filed where it should have been . |
| 21 | but if she was n't sleeping over she had , say she had |
| 22 | If those men was n't going there I would say right , put the gas fire on . |
| 23 | Mum was n't coming so she 'd come and fetch me . |
| 24 | One boy called Caddles was n't educated instead he was forced to work in chalk pits . |
| 25 | Cos it instead of it was n't wrapped up you see , it was wrapped up in a cloth . |
| 26 | If those men was n't working there I would n't hesitate . |
| 27 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |