Example sentences of "n't some " in BNC.

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1 Glasgow did n't some things never change . ’
2 Primary education is n't some form of factory farming based on controlled diets of programmes of study and attainment targets .
3 I have made twelve tapes for the CBC and they want me back … why could n't some of this have happened ten years ago ?
4 ‘ Well if I did n't some bugger else would , ’ said Joe defensively .
5 I ca n't imagine what would prompt this woman to dredge it all up if there was n't some truth in it .
6 Why ca n't some of these blokes be earning £1 million a year like snooker players ?
7 But i n relationships where there are continual small issues which divide , if there is n't some truthful ( albeit controlled ) expression of the difference , that is how resentments and potential fury can be built up .
8 ‘ This is n't some damn club he can visit when it fucking well suits him , ’ she said .
9 One is forced to ask what OSF had to gain and wonders if it was n't some kind of supralegal manoeuvre to put pressure on Addamax and Sun because they 've got something on the OSF contingent .
10 This is n't some game show where you barter with another contestant for the big prize .
11 Could n't some students be more directly involved in interviewing the people who will be working alongside them ?
12 Which is not to say there are n't some marvellous people too .
13 The control is n't some detail , Cameron … knowing it 's somebody you can trust is n't just by-the-way ; it 's everything . ’
14 ‘ Now remember , lads , ’ he briefed them as they scuttled purposefully over the rough rocky ground , ‘ this is n't some parasite we 're searching for , it 's a Chelonian officer .
15 Well , yes , I know that , O.K. , I said , you 're their mother , and you decided against their father for reasons I take to be desolate , but would n't some Asian studies in St. James 's Square at the Institute of International Affairs be less perilous until they are both over , say , four ?
16 But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ?
17 ‘ Did n't some bastard offer to get them in ? ’
18 This is n't some idle whim .
19 Nothing happened for a moment , and in that moment she started to think that she 'd over-reached herself ; but then Charlie said , ‘ This is n't some charity for runaways , you know , ’ and she knew that she was still within the limits , if only just .
20 ‘ Do n't some of those batty Jeppy folk call their prophet the Night Watcher ? ’
21 Was , was everybody embarrassed about going to the pawnbrokers or did n't did n't some people
22 It is n't some shallow need that goes away after an hour in bed with you .
23 That does n't some off , that 's fixed on that is . ’
24 She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself .
25 So OK , he 'd probably never have married her if his hand had n't been forced , or at least not so quickly , but did n't some of his behaviour indicate that perhaps he was n't quite so averse to the situation as he pretended ?
26 ‘ No reason why you should n't some day , is there ?
27 But he ai n't some two-bit punk on the run after blowin' someone away .
28 The pigeons are of cause er er er a cause of debate in the city centre some people like pigeons some do n't some say there are far too many pigeons .
29 fares 6 offer 4 do n't some just offer fares to speakers
30 Indeed did n't some of those unfortunate Micks you buggers kept framing get done for handling gelignite when they 'd only played cards or struck matches or something ? ’
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