Example sentences of "it was n't [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was n't customised .
2 Yes it was n't rewound .
3 It was n't surprising him thinking about people dying , what with Mrs Wright 's friend and Lee 's Dad , his proper Dad .
4 Her place is bigger than Victor 's but it was n't built by someone who appreciated rooms .
5 Erm , and it was n't written in Marseilles , although the Marsei , the word Marseillaise , might suggest it was written in Marseilles .
6 Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written .
7 Sadly , if it was produced using the SEUCK utility it was n't tweaked enough — there 's no excuse for baddies that use such boring attack patterns .
8 It would be sent back if it was n't filled in would n't it ?
9 But that did n't matter , because it was n't listening any more .
10 I do n't know if it makes any difference , but it was n't planned .
11 It was n't planned .
12 It was n't planned that way , she just did n't happen too quickly .
13 No it was n't planned earlier on was it ?
14 Markby hoped it was n't intended to imitate him .
15 It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read .
16 ‘ Believe me , Lady Ursula , it was n't intended , it was n't like that . ’
17 It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another .
18 It was n't intended to duplicate , the work of the tenants ' association , it was it was looking at different kinds of of issues .
19 Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated .
20 It turned out that it was n't sited in farming country but in Main Street , Hull .
21 And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such .
22 It was n't to do with change . ’
23 It was n't to do with the women , they still resembled their ancestors well enough .
24 The contact was more than either of them could bear , and it was n't to do with the heat .
25 They have n't received your invoice or statement because it was n't sent or it was sent to the wrong address .
26 If you only go back ten fifteen years , it was n't realized fully how many problems are out there ,
27 Maybe it was n't disseminated . ’
28 Theresa led the way , between grass almost knee-high bordered by a riot of unpruned roses , to the porch , then reached for a key hung high on a nail , less , Dalgliesh supposed , for security reasons than to ensure that it was n't lost .
29 Mr Rooker said money from the fund ‘ simply never got to the people who needed it because it was n't publicised enough and because the regimental administrators were inefficient .
30 It was n't damaged , just the stuff gone , that 's all .
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