Example sentences of "was n't [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was n't enthusiasm from the young people to join these days , and the dwindling numbers had rendered it impossible to carry on .
2 I could n't stay in the centre , there was n't space in the centre
3 Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children .
4 I was n't part of the bloody task force . ’
5 Telling her she 'd have to get out and she was n't part of the family and all that .
6 He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display .
7 ‘ Entertaining the proprietor was n't part of the job description , ’ she offered , her tone creamy as she nerved herself to continue the debate if necessary .
8 I was n't part of the warm hum of approval
9 If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer .
10 Absolutely no doubt , that that was n't part of the plan .
11 ‘ But that was n't part of the deal !
12 ‘ I was n't part of the investigation but because I was on duty I had to go to the scene of the crime .
13 At the moment most drivers have no official training on how to cope with motorway conditions , I asked Sergeant Bill Clarke from the Forces Driving School why it was n't part of the driving test .
14 She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb .
15 There just was n't time for a school visit .
16 Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’
17 There was n't prejudice amongst the public then 'cause there was only a handful of coloured here , anyway . ’
18 The charge was n't murder of an unborn child .
19 We there was n't room for a three piece suite sort of thing and then you 'd have a sideboard and a table , chairs to sit on like hard chairs , wooden chairs like kitchen chairs .
20 ‘ Mrs Carson said there was n't room in the carriages .
21 There was n't room in the car and Mark rode on the boot .
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