Example sentences of "were not worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not worth living for . |
| 2 | The male contestants , the jury found , were not worth a mention . |
| 3 | All the carefully prepared summaries and analyses were not worth the paper they were printed on . |
| 4 | For a while Ayrshire and Durham Shorthorn bulls were used on the Breton cows but the results were not worth while . |
| 5 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 6 | She did not regain consciousness at any point ; it was almost , he thought bitterly , as if it were not worth her while to say goodbye to him . |
| 7 | Like many I have supported this union 's policy my C L P , but also like many I have been hurt and angered by the attempts of some of the Party , both nationally and locally to deride and belittle the unions as a thing of the past and not relevant to the Party 's new media image and that working class issues were not worth presenting at elections because they are unpopular with the tabloids . |
| 8 | And they were n't worth transporting all the way back . |
| 9 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 10 | He told the man it was very old , but the gold work was too fragile to be reworked and the stones were n't worth anything . |
| 11 | She was fond of me — she would automatically agree , as if the matter were n't worth discussing , that she loved me — but she unquestioningly believed the best about me . |
| 12 | • many valuations ( independently prepared of not ) were n't worth the paper they were written on . |
| 13 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 14 | if one 's like it the other 's like it as long as that 's hanging there untouched there 's quite , quite safe , I mean were n't worth it |
| 15 | yeah and he 's deciding that Adam and he 's deciding that Adam were n't worth it and |