Example sentences of "[det] was not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils . |
| 2 | This was n't getting him anywhere . |
| 3 | Ultimately , I decided that this was not getting us anywhere , but I was her last hope . |
| 4 | Whilst this was not denied there seemed to be general confusion among teachers about the nature of ‘ multicultural education ’ and the nature of the school 's problems with respect to this issue . |
| 5 | ‘ What do you possess that was not given you ? ’ |
| 6 | er she bought these new leather shoes quite a while ago , but even they and they were the widest she could buy , but they needed stretching , so Joanne , Paul 's girlfriend , had got one of these shoe stretching things , you put it in and twist it and it goes up and up , well even that at it 's highest would n't , you know , at it 's furthest , well it was sticking out as far as it could go , even that was n't filling it , so she stuck a spud down the end of it |
| 7 | That was n't to say she did n't like him , because she did , but then it would be very hard not to ! |
| 8 | That was n't counting what I had in my pockets when I was arrested . |
| 9 | Right , you know your dick yeah , right you know your dick , yeah you know it 's got that slit on the very end of it , if that was n't slit I swear your whole body would be full of piss . |
| 10 | That was n't doing what I was asking it to do . |