Example sentences of "was n't [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But that was n't on the agenda , was it ? |
| 32 | But they was n't on the phone you know , when you got there . |
| 33 | I hope it was n't on the green . |
| 34 | tonight and then I 'm on me raffle next week , but after next , I mean I can stop in the next , I mean I was , I 've never been out since a week on Tuesday cos I was n't on the raffle Friday |
| 35 | They was n't on the creel . ’ |
| 36 | Big Ron will be confident of victory but would sleep easier if Big Mal was n't on the opposition bench . |
| 37 | She was n't on the plane and West Mercia fraud squad have asked Interpol to investigate . |
| 38 | Well that fail sign was n't on the caravan when we was doing that axle underneath . |
| 39 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 40 | He was n't on the piano in this intermission because in the next act they were using the orchestra pit as part of the scenery . |
| 41 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 42 | I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça . |
| 43 | Told them she was n't on the market yet . ’ |
| 44 | The ref said the first time the ball was n't on the spot properly so the kick had to be retaken . |
| 45 | Future excuses could be ‘ our name was n't on the cup ’ ‘ we had possession but we could n't convert ’ or ‘ the ball would n't go in the net ’ . |
| 46 | His mind was n't on the game at all : it was on balance sheets and interest rates and VAT and cash flow and overdraft facilities . |
| 47 | Which means that whoever the seventeenth victim was , he was n't on the Project . ’ |
| 48 | I said well when I was here last that sign was n't on the thing then ! |
| 49 | You have to do your research on the premises at the Records Office , but since it was n't on the booking-out form , I slipped it into my briefcase . ’ |
| 50 | If he felt resentment that the Yaxlee family network had failed him , he was n't of a nature to allow this to embitter him unduly . |
| 51 | It has given my mother a complete raison d'être , since she was n't of the generation that had careers or outside interests to involve themselves in . |
| 52 | There was of course a massive mistake in that general election campaign , but it was n't of the trade union making . |
| 53 | But I was n't of the seniority to be one of the inner group of ministers which all prime ministers tend to work most closely with . |
| 54 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 55 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 56 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 57 | If it was n't for a bit of aggression , he would n't be where he is now . |
| 58 | ‘ Thought it was n't for a woman , etc . |
| 59 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |
| 60 | If it was n't for the law of libel we could probably make a very nice little thing out of it . ’ |