Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are batteries for when we 're stopped , but they 'd only last for forty-five minutes , eh ? , if we were n't plugged into the ground supply at a station . |
| 2 | Her voice was more natural as she said : ‘ I 'm surprised you were n't treated as a suspect . |
| 3 | They 're gon na go in through that door the second it goes down , they were n't loitering at the end of the passage , they were right by the door were n't they ? |
| 4 | But , in ruling out a coup , Trent had to presume that the arms had a further destination and were n't connected to the drug scenario . |
| 5 | They were n't fixed to the cabin — not while they were going across from one side to the other . |
| 6 | We 've reroofed the house completely rewired it , put in a fire detection system , resotred areas previously out of use and which were n't seen by the public . |
| 7 | It was decided that perhaps they had outlived their use and they were n't served at the reception . |
| 8 | Mum had done lots of cooking beforehand so we were n't tied to the kitchen and could spend time doing other things and just sitting around chatting . |
| 9 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 10 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |
| 11 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 12 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 13 | Well if they were n't represented in the Kuomintang were they ? |
| 14 | I thought it might be that there was a , we were n't covered for the liability to pick people |
| 15 | And as well as that , beyond the city walls , fortifications were being erected all the way round the north of Oxford , the bits that were n't covered by the river . |
| 16 | ‘ They were n't looking for a weapon . |
| 17 | You were n't looking for the cat , you were looking |
| 18 | We were n't looking at the time . |
| 19 | We had brought jackets , but were n't prepared for the cold . |
| 20 | We had brought jackets , but were n't prepared for the cold . |
| 21 | These were n't prepared for the winter hibernation . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 23 | Mr Spencer added : ‘ They were n't filming at the time of the incident . |
| 24 | And I was interested to hear the film-makers were n't allowed in the Sanctum — about the God-Kings lavish lifestyle , which included a large stock of harem girls . |
| 25 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 26 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
| 27 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 28 | And what 's happening is the children were n't walking from the school Street site to the Road site . |
| 29 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 30 | You were n't expected at the tennis courts at all , were you ? ’ |