Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that it meant very much , because when you thought about it it was n't something really to celebrate but today , June 28th , was his birthday . |
| 2 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 3 | There was n't anything else to do but laugh . |
| 4 | Another remarked that once one had seen the ostriches ( he meant the ospreys at Loch Garten ) , the Aviemore Centre , and been up in the chair lift to Cairn Gorm there ‘ was n't anything else to do ’ . |
| 5 | Oh no , oh no you could n't heat anything up no , no but erm oh we well there was n't anything else you have to accept things do n't you , there was n't anything else to do . |
| 6 | You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it . |