Example sentences of "was n't [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they were surprised when I threw up ; I hope they were , I hope they were surprised and very interested and thought , 'Ullo 'ullo 'ullo it was n't 'im then after all ; he ai n't the villain , he 's been fitted up so help me … |
| 2 | " It was n't we who wounded Holly , " said Speedwell . |
| 3 | Er that time we we was living in Bay was n't we ? |
| 4 | We was born with hair was n't we ? |
| 5 | And we was asleep was n't we ? |
| 6 | It was n't we were right against the window , cold backs , I mean we were I was freezing ! |
| 7 | With this kind of budget you do n't have to ask whether the Catering Branch are doing a good , professional job — if it was n't they would be having to organise domestic famine relief drops ! |
| 8 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
| 9 | Oh everybody was going poor was n't they . |
| 10 | It was n't they took three hundred people the last time and now he 's talking about three hundred . |
| 11 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 12 | It was all the rooms upstairs was n't they ? |
| 13 | those that have n't , are less fortunate than that , there must be something either for them or that they were going to heaven was n't they ? |
| 14 | Was n't they |
| 15 | No he was n't they 're being silly . |
| 16 | Ninety nine pence was n't they , for him ? |
| 17 | Dizzy might be well-off , but Diane knew from the estate accounts that he was n't rolling-in-it rich . |
| 18 | I was n't myself . |
| 19 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 20 | I was n't myself in the heather that night . |
| 21 | ‘ If what happened tonight was n't somebody 's finger pushin' that glass . ’ |
| 22 | It was sort of a group kind of thing , but there was n't somebody telling him , ‘ You ca n't do that . ’ |
| 23 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 24 | She hoped he was n't somebody hugely important . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 26 | The support he needed was n't somebody standing next to him . ’ |
| 27 | THE American film maker Woody Allen once said his one regret in life was that he was n't somebody else . |
| 28 | Although Chief Pillmoor was n't everybody 's cup of tea , Vi had discovered , at least the lady was fair and had no favourites . |
| 29 | But it was n't everybody that could pay it , it was very hard for some people . |
| 30 | Er and they were the kind of people that sometimes found theirself in difficulties , at the end of this quarter , as it 's called , because Well it was n't everybody that could pay it . |