Example sentences of "was n't make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its design , like Dot 's , was of crossed flags but was n't made of scratchy tin with rusting edges . |
| 2 | Liam was n't made welcome by his in-laws in New York and after an awkward lodging , first with Denis and then with Sean and Michael , he took Noreen 's room at the Lennox apartment when Noreen got her own place in Manhattan with Maria . |
| 3 | The abolition on stamp duty for house purchases was n't made permanent , as I thought it might be , but inheritance tax was ameliorated and he did bring in transferable tax allowances between spouses . |
| 4 | I went up to London early that morning and it was n't made up . |
| 5 | He had n't got creases on his face from being folded up , and he was n't made up of hundreds of tiny dots , but apart from that … |
| 6 | So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort . |
| 7 | Other things apart , it was n't made clear what drugs the fellow had in mind . |
| 8 | The problem was it was n't made in my workshop , it was made somewhere else . |
| 9 | mistake is obvious like one estate I 'm dealing with which is a half home-made will I E it was n't made by a solicitor , I suspect it was made by a barrister I suspect it was a barrister who was born abroad |
| 10 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 11 | It was n't made lightly , Hilary . ’ |
| 12 | But she was n't made of brass , or ice either , although she tried to close her mind to what he was doing , to the gentle , unbearable pleasure of his lips moving slowly over hers , not cruel as they had been earlier , but coaxing , first lightly and then more demanding . |
| 13 | Inserting the new motherboard is just the reverse of taking the old one out — however take your time because the case was n't made for it . |
| 14 | Of course , it was n't made any easier by the fact that Jack was attracting a great deal of interest , anyway . |
| 15 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 16 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 17 | Of course , he was n't making a living at all and there was no way he possibly could . |
| 18 | He was n't making a very good job of fixing the sticks together . |
| 19 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 20 | And if she was n't making her own clothes , she was determined to back her country folk and wear designer gear from Down Under , not previously known as a stronghold in fashion terms . |
| 21 | Then , when questioned by the press , he asserts in his defence that ‘ obviously ’ he was n't making the point absolutely seriously . |
| 22 | Juliana Gill , 31 , readily admitted she was n't making the most of herself . |
| 23 | Still Forbes was n't making sense . |
| 24 | ‘ She was n't making many unforced errors . ’ |
| 25 | The Abbot was n't making any comment . |
| 26 | If her ankle was painful , she was n't making a fuss about it . |
| 27 | I was n't making a conscious attempt to write an Indian War and Peace at all . ’ |
| 28 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 29 | Topaz was trying to pretend that this man was n't making her weak at the knees . |
| 30 | He was n't making a lot of sense . |