Example sentences of "it was not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't surprising him thinking about people dying , what with Mrs Wright 's friend and Lee 's Dad , his proper Dad . |
| 2 | And in a lot of marriages the wife 's total responsibility and if it was n't done she is the one responsible . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't seeing you with no clothes on , ’ he explained patiently , at last , suppressing laughter . |
| 4 | With treacherous defiance , her eyes closed , abandoning her to her fate like the rest of her body , and she felt a despair that her brain was so languid that it was n't helping her to deny him . |
| 5 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
| 6 | My distended bladder was n't helping matters , but it was n't holding me back as much as I 'd feared , either . |
| 7 | And I assure you it was n't to wipe your nose , it was to bring home any surplus cakes , that were left on the table . |
| 8 | Sally tried to persuade him to stop but he said it was n't doing him any harm , even though he looked pale and drawn . |
| 9 | it was n't doing me any good because it was |
| 10 | And my poor mam you know , she used to scrub her hands with erm it was n't Dettol it was Lysol in them days was n't it what they used to use . |
| 11 | When it was n't working I was going , Oh my god . |
| 12 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 13 | He had never had direct contact with the pushers — the students who bought dope shared it — and , if it was n't offered him , he did without . |
| 14 | ‘ But it was n't work I wanted to get away from , just the kind of people I sometimes have to work for . |
| 15 | What it was n't giving them — and they were quite clear about this — was first-class service . |
| 16 | I mean I was showing the figures and proved that er it was n't paying its way but to me it had always been our shop , you know , from when I was child and wonderful memories you know . |
| 17 | It was n't known they knew each other . ’ |
| 18 | And it was n't putting anybody else out ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 22 | But , it , it was n't saying I 'd made , made an error |
| 23 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 24 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 25 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 26 | The US Secretary of State set up SEATO — the South East Asia Treaty Organisation — as a forum for discussion in South East Asia , in order to show it was not wielding its power without consultation , to try to help sort things out . |
| 27 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 28 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 29 | In a gesture of goodwill and co-operation , the District having established its official position as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses with both the Board and the LEA , withdrew its opposition on the understanding that it was not conceding its providing powers in Essex . |
| 30 | Though it was not admitting it , the Japanese government had been ready to do so all along . |