Example sentences of "[adv] was not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I just was n't expecting it . ’ |
2 | I thought she 'd and just was n't telling me but anyway |
3 | She was prepared to stand surety for me , but they just was n't having it . |
4 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
5 | She went on to her worries about Jeetinder who still was n't bringing anything home from school . |
6 | Ferguson admitted : ‘ Even when Paul Ince and Denis Irwin had scored to put us 2-0 ahead , I still was n't counting my chickens . |
7 | Ferguson admitted : ‘ Even when Paul Ince and Denis Irwin had scored to put us 2-0 ahead , I still was n't counting my chickens . |
8 | why the night before , did , was I told oh you 'll need an amplifier and she 's going to bring in one from her home , her own one in tomorrow morning , I thought I did n't spring it in last week , anything and then that day when I discovered it still was n't working I just could n't believe it |
9 | The voice clearly was n't addressing him . |
10 | Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be . |
11 | but , I mean if that actually was n't happening you 'd think he'd' 've come back and said we 've got to get in there now , you know get our , our message across and , and make a revolution movement . |
12 | He certainly was n't dumping his pints on the floor on the sly ; I 'd have got wet if he was . |