Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice was more natural as she said : ‘ I 'm surprised you were n't treated as a suspect . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Needless to say , I was n't asked for a repeat performance ! |
| 6 | But this particular traffic jam was n't caused by a Scania shedding its load , sewer repairs or slight confusion about exactly which way one should negotiate the Wandsworth one-way system . |
| 7 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 8 | When we arrived there were only about 20 people in the audience and he was n't dressed in a dress . |
| 9 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
| 10 | But they 've got to realise that Rome was n't built in a day ! |
| 11 | Rome , he well knows , was n't built in a day . |
| 12 | But their kids were n't expected to work for their love , it was n't seen as a return for services rendered . |
| 13 | The tone of voice was gently musing , but Guy was n't fooled for a minute . |
| 14 | He turned his head and smiled down at her — she looked into his eyes , and knew that he was n't fooled for a minute . |
| 15 | She was n't fooled for a moment . |
| 16 | It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | And there 's no gummed edge so the paper was n't ripped off a pad . |
| 19 | We 'll never know how many lives were saved , how many teenage pregnancies were avoided , how much sexually transmitted disease was n't transmitted as a result . |
| 20 | Believe it or believe it not he was he was n't born with a beard . |
| 21 | Jackie concluded : ‘ Jasper certainly was n't born with a silver spoon in his mouth , but there are quite a few occasions when he needs one now — of the sugar variety , of course ! ’ |
| 22 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 23 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 24 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
| 25 | I was n't trapped within a vision of my femaleness . |
| 26 | Well I mean I 'm er that was n't meant as a criticism |
| 27 | I 'm sorry , ’ she said quickly again , ‘ that was n't meant as a pun . ’ |
| 28 | Firstly it was n't put secondly is inadmissible thirdly it was n't marked as a question . |
| 29 | ‘ Harry was n't impaled on a radio , ’ I said . |
| 30 | He 's lucky the other man was n't put against a wall and shot . ’ |