Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 2 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 3 | But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected . |
| 4 | Perhaps the only mistake I made all those years ago was not realising what an anti-democratic medium television would prove to be . |
| 5 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 6 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |
| 7 | ‘ As wholesalers we felt that Billingsgate was not offering us the facilities we needed , ’ he explains . |
| 8 | Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed . |
| 9 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 10 | He was n't paying her a compliment . |
| 11 | ‘ OK , maybe I was n't doing him a service . |