Example sentences of "were n't [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our Leader does n't like to be told that his election was a fraud , that actual grievous bodily harm was perpetrated to bring him victory , that people were n't telling the truth when they said they wanted him , only him , when they said their hearts beat as one with love of him . |
| 2 | One of Mick 's first jobs concerning David was to organize the arrangements for my album which later became ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ . |
| 3 | I 'd started my album ‘ Were n't Born A Man ’ and Mick Ronson was the arranger and producer for a couple of tracks , and David produced a couple of tracks too , but during the making of the album , David became even bigger and bigger in America and the move to America was absolutely imminent so I had to finish my own album without the help of him because he was n't around — which I did . |
| 4 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 5 | And which we , we were n't granted the time off , we were granted time off without pay but not paid leave . |
| 6 | How lucky they were , she thought ; secure in each other 's affection and presumably fortified in increasing age by the certainty that if they were n't granted the grace of death on the same day there would be no lasting separation . |
| 7 | Then I became very angry , because we were n't given a choice about the use of these chemicals . |
| 8 | ‘ We were n't given a chance with our last two games away to England and Romania . |
| 9 | As outsiders they were n't given a chance , but with McBride leading by example , they reached the semi-final stage only to be pushed out by an injury-time winning try by Australia . |
| 10 | Older members claim they were n't given the opportunity to buy . |
| 11 | They were n't getting the work done . |
| 12 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 13 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 14 | When he says that erm that sort of , that 's what the C C P leadership thought and so they thought that if they were n't getting the land then something must be going wrong with the policy |
| 15 | Everybody — senior and junior — started talking about how they were n't getting the support they needed . |
| 16 | Because even if I were n't wearing the tweed jacket I 'd still be me . |
| 17 | We watched that last night do n't matter we watched that last night and he were chittering away about summat , I were n't taking a lot of notice |
| 18 | That is , I , I take it would still be me even if I were seated , I would still be me even if I were n't holding a book , possibly I 'd still be me even if I were n't American . |
| 19 | If the sergeant had caught you there , you 'd have been in trouble because you were n't flogging the beat . |
| 20 | I thought you were n't staying the night though ? |
| 21 | I told him that we were n't eating and that we were n't paying the rent — almost destitute . |
| 22 | We were n't shooting the writers , we were only disgracing them — and look how few people came forward in their defence . |
| 23 | ‘ You were n't awake an hour ago ? ’ |
| 24 | So again you would n't know you were n't playing an octave . |
| 25 | When critics accused Richard Nixon of ‘ indecent exposure ’ , they were n't revealing the origin of his nickname Tricky Dicky ; they were referring to his 1952 TV speech where he was broadcast cuddling his cocker spaniel ‘ Checkers ’ in an attempt to clear his name ( with dog lovers at least ) in the first cock-up regarding a slush fund . |
| 26 | it was so obvious , cos they were n't spending no money on it , the place was in a right state |
| 27 | So it 's not a big expense like you know so that we were n't spending the money on ourselves , it 's just needed in the house and needed for the kids like you know . |
| 28 | I do n't think it 's as simple as that because at the time that we were doing the budget , we were doing it really in September , and most of those other cate categories of work , apart from like auto-offs reports and things , were n't having an impact . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were n't doing a runner , where were you going in such a hurry ? ’ |
| 30 | They charge to overheads if they were n't doing a job . |