Example sentences of "was n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his Saturday evening visit , while he was canvassing for Communion , I had to tell him that I was n't confirmed . |
| 2 | When she had decided to go after a job with children , the best she had hoped for was a mother's-help place ; she was n't trained as a nanny or anything like that . |
| 3 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 4 | I had run the anchor leg , but was n't selected for Los Angeles . |
| 5 | When asked why Limpar had n't even made the bench , manager George Graham replied tersely : ‘ Because he was n't selected . ’ |
| 6 | In the pub on the night of John 's kidnap people had tried to reassure me that if he was n't freed soon then there would be nationwide protests demanding his release . |
| 7 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |
| 8 | " Oswin said I was n't cut out to be a nun . |
| 9 | He realized that he ‘ was n't cut out for academic work ’ . |
| 10 | You said was n't cut through . |
| 11 | She just was n't cut out for this sort of thing ! |
| 12 | The wedding ring was n't cut off , it was only the engagement ring and we 've sold that . |
| 13 | So , , he took on the task of er , writing the script off his own bat , he was n't appointed to it , er , but he stuck with that throughout , and erm , he stuck to his objective . |
| 14 | She 'd wept and said he was n't to talk like that . |
| 15 | I was n't presented with the full facts . |
| 16 | He was n't telling him . |
| 17 | ‘ I was n't telling the truth yesterday . ’ |
| 18 | Barney Moss either did n't know who had staked the seed money … or he was n't telling , and not even the Spanish Inquisition was going to change that state of affairs . |
| 19 | More , there was something Nils was n't telling her . |
| 20 | Ellwood was n't telling Carey how tight things were , or what methods might have to be used . |
| 21 | Was there something that Mother was n't telling them ? |
| 22 | He kept his face turned away from her so that she would n't see that he was n't telling the whole truth . |
| 23 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |
| 24 | Kate shook her head again , saying she did n't know , and Mrs Blakey was aware she was n't telling the truth . |
| 25 | I really do n't know , and the man certainly was n't telling , whether he had any hard evidence at all to connect Jefferson with the theft , if it was a theft , of candles from the Cathedral . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not interested , ’ she said , knowing she was n't telling the whole truth . |
| 27 | When he looked at you it was like he knew something he was n't telling , or was laughing at you , no matter what it was he said . |
| 28 | He really did believe she knew something she was n't telling . |
| 29 | He was n't telling the fans anything they do n't already know that this Everton team has been allowed to slide into mediocrity , and that the values of the old ‘ school of science ’ have been allowed to melt away like snow in the Sahara . |
| 30 | I thought she 'd and just was n't telling me but anyway |