Example sentences of "was n't [vb pp] " 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 | I was n't presented with the full facts . |
| 15 | And Lord 'Awke , the captain — well , 'e was a lord as was n't drunk as a … anyways , 'e turns round and says , ‘ Peel , yer orft . ’ |
| 16 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |
| 17 | Her husband , Rainer , he was n't hit but he went in with them . |
| 18 | The judge said it was a mircale that Inspector Paul Kirby was n't hit , and other officers told the court they 'd never been so terrified . |
| 19 | But you wo n't find many of his ideas in standard reference works : he was n't swayed by dogma , nor did he spend the earth . |
| 20 | That first tour did a lot to make the rest of the tours tremendously successful because , with all things like that , if you do play to a small group of people and you still do a great show , then by word of mouth the word spreads how wonderful you were , even though it was n't packed . |
| 21 | Gavin was n't packed last night |
| 22 | Maybe it was n't disseminated . ’ |
| 23 | He went to ground and was n't heard of again until 1975 when word reached the CIA that he was training the Marxist MPLA soldiers in Angola . |
| 24 | ( 92 ) * He was n't heard to say that Bill was looking for trouble . |
| 25 | And it was n't earmarked for any specific items ? |
| 26 | ‘ I really was n't exposed to any of the culture from the age of seven . |
| 27 | And he was n't attended by his admirers at that stage , so he had no inducement to show off by taking risks . |
| 28 | Anyway he was n't viewed , he was not viewed by , by the emperor of Japan , sorry Douglas MacArthur , as er as a very impressive figure . |
| 29 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 30 | It was n't turned on by the T V. |