Example sentences of "n't [det] good [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 2 | They were n't any good to shovel coals no , is to give it away again . |
| 3 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 4 | They made out I was n't any good at arithmetic , which I was n't , but that was n't the reason . |
| 5 | People said it was because they were n't any good at finding their way . |
| 6 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't any good at anything . |
| 8 | Keeley said girls were unreasonable because they were n't any good at sport — they had n't learnt any rules . |
| 9 | She really was n't any good at this game of deception — especially where her friend was concerned . |
| 10 | I goes well all the , all the questions were matters science and she were n't any good at that |
| 11 | They were n't any good by themselves er , these things because I the other thing which you had to get from somewhere was output rates . |
| 12 | He 's an electrician but he is n't any good in the house . ’ |