Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] n't the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like this I was n't the least bit even not tired or anything . |
| 2 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |
| 3 | You are n't the same person since you started taking those things , Clare . |
| 4 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 5 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 6 | I 've got five sisters ; she was n't the same with them . |
| 7 | She was n't the same Juliet Avery who had cycled to the hospital yesterday morning , blithe and carefree . |
| 8 | She was n't the same . |
| 9 | They are n't the same . |
| 10 | And they were n't the least bit frightened . |
| 11 | But they were n't the same superior quality as those Mr Watson Taylor brought because they wore out . |
| 12 | Or a couple , who talked a lot about how things had been , and how they were n't the same now . |
| 13 | They were n't the same people any more . |
| 14 | ‘ It is n't the same thing to us as it is to you . |
| 15 | Children still chase a ball there but it is n't the same . |
| 16 | I 'm fond of Cora-Beth , very fond , but it is n't the same as I feel for Madeleine and somehow I 'll have to explain that to her . |
| 17 | I 've got this electronic one of Veronica 's ; well , one of her ex-boyfriends ' … and its action is all right , but it is n't the same . " |
| 18 | it is n't the same . |
| 19 | I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted . |
| 20 | he 's changed a lot , you know , he is n't the same person , you know he 's sort of more humble |
| 21 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 22 | But it was n't the same when they went to school . |
| 23 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 24 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 25 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 26 | ‘ That bloody bike , ’ she said , although she knew it was n't the same one . |
| 27 | It was n't the same voice . |
| 28 | With Molly gone , it was n't the same . |
| 29 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |
| 30 | I had the crowd around me , shuffling slowly into a large ground-skim heading for city centre , but it was n't the same . |