Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the given date , the same change may well have diffused to other dialects that were not affected at first , and Labov 's well-known work ( for example , 1980 ) on short /a/ in the northern United States suggests that this EModE change is still in progress there today . |
| 2 | The four died in July 1967 when their helicopter crashed during an approach to a landing zone in South Vietnam but their bodies were not returned until last July . |
| 3 | If the litigant was not assisted at first instance , or before one of the appellate tribunals , a full application for a legal aid certificate must be made . |
| 4 | The alarm was not raised until last Friday when one arrived home with the wrong surname on an identity bracelet . |
| 5 | It was not love at first sight , but between the speaker and this member of his audience there developed a rapport that was fascination on her side and intense curiosity on his . |
| 6 | The committee 's existence was not disclosed until last week . |
| 7 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 8 | But it was n't love at first sight … |
| 9 | It was n't love at first sight when I met Michael [ Williams ] — it was good friends at first sight , though , for nine years . |
| 10 | It was n't love at first sight for Monica . |
| 11 | It was n't counted in last week 's at all . |