Example sentences of "[was/were] n't [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our Leader does n't like to be told that his election was a fraud , that actual grievous bodily harm was perpetrated to bring him victory , that people were n't telling the truth when they said they wanted him , only him , when they said their hearts beat as one with love of him . |
| 2 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 3 | Everybody — senior and junior — started talking about how they were n't getting the support they needed . |
| 4 | They were n't getting the work done . |
| 5 | The ticket agents felt they were n't getting the full treatment . |
| 6 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 7 | When he says that erm that sort of , that 's what the C C P leadership thought and so they thought that if they were n't getting the land then something must be going wrong with the policy |
| 8 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 9 | Because even if I were n't wearing the tweed jacket I 'd still be me . |
| 10 | When this tour was announced I wondered why Catherine Wheel were n't taking the top spot on this bill considering their higher media profile . |
| 11 | After witnessing the gig I 'm definitely wondering why whey were n't taking the top spot . |
| 12 | ‘ Counterfeiting techniques have become highly sophisticated and in many cases the packaging has been copied to the finest degree so that the ordinary consumer would have absolutely no idea , from the outside , that they were n't buying the genuine article , ’ explains Mike Wadsley . |
| 13 | If the sergeant had caught you there , you 'd have been in trouble because you were n't flogging the beat . |
| 14 | I thought you were n't staying the night though ? |
| 15 | Cos we did actually , we went to before we went , putting the things together making sure that we were n't starting the next activity until the , the rooms would be finished . |
| 16 | I told him that we were n't eating and that we were n't paying the rent — almost destitute . |
| 17 | We were n't shooting the writers , we were only disgracing them — and look how few people came forward in their defence . |
| 18 | When critics accused Richard Nixon of ‘ indecent exposure ’ , they were n't revealing the origin of his nickname Tricky Dicky ; they were referring to his 1952 TV speech where he was broadcast cuddling his cocker spaniel ‘ Checkers ’ in an attempt to clear his name ( with dog lovers at least ) in the first cock-up regarding a slush fund . |
| 19 | So it 's not a big expense like you know so that we were n't spending the money on ourselves , it 's just needed in the house and needed for the kids like you know . |
| 20 | But I think Colin your main concern was n't it that perhaps we were n't hitting the right slots and ? |
| 21 | As we flew down around hairpin bends , I thanked Fate we were n't doing the day 's route in reverse ! |
| 22 | Salome and Alec were n't doing the Exhilarator for their health , were they ? ’ |
| 23 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 24 | I did n't think he 'd be cooking tonight cos I knew they were n't shutting the |
| 25 | Georgiana Greenwood may have been partly to blame , but it had to do with the fact that we really were n't running the conference out of the college . |
| 26 | Your mum said you were n't liking the Smoke much better but that it was alright . |
| 27 | For one thing , Fender seemed to deserve Tokai 's kick up the backside , since apparent mismanagement and increasingly poor quality control meant that from the early '70s through to about ‘ 82 , Fender simply were n't offering the musician a consistent , value-for-money product . |
| 28 | If you if you do n't with a hair dryer if you were n't blowing the air over it , what happens ? |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't telling the truth yesterday . ’ |
| 30 | He kept his face turned away from her so that she would n't see that he was n't telling the whole truth . |