Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central heating That were n't even on when I looked at it . |
| 2 | When we landed , the problems were n't nearly over . |
| 3 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
| 4 | Obviously Ted and I were n't always around to scrutinize the intricate excitements of this new love , especially as Dad and Eva spent many evenings over the river in London proper , going to the theatre to see controversial plays , to German films or to lectures by Marxists , and to high-class parties . |
| 5 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 6 | He was n't even up to being works foreman any longer , quite apart from anything else . |
| 7 | I 'm glad Caro was happy then because she sure as hell was n't later on ! ’ |
| 8 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 9 | This was March and I was n't due out until August . |
| 10 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 11 | He was n't often out of his bed now , and David Beaton had said privately to Bridhe that it was only determination to see the baby born that was keeping the old man alive . |
| 12 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 13 | In fact , Henry 's real problem with the law was that he was n't quite up to it . |
| 14 | If she was n't quite up to her other team-mates , her presence there vastly increased her father 's generosity . |
| 15 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 16 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 17 | Caspar was n't still out loose . |
| 18 | I pulled the life-jacket inflation toggle and was very thankful to hear it and feel it inflating — but I realised immediately my suit zip was n't fully up , freezing water was seeping into it ’ . |
| 19 | And we shall get a clearer idea of the time of death when Dr. Blain-Thomson has done the P.M. But judging from the state of rigor , Dr. Kerrison was n't far out . |
| 20 | Mm it might be fashionable but phoo Incidentally I was n't far out with th the age of our friend across the road was I ? |
| 21 | It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off . |