Example sentences of "was [not/n't] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was not me speaking , would I want to listen to me ? |
| 2 | It was not I suppose for anything other than the Flow that they came up as far as Orkney . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't me put the charge on the boat ! ’ the nervous man cried out . |
| 4 | ‘ I may have felt like throttling him , ’ snarled Samuel , ‘ but it was n't me threatening to kill him . |
| 5 | It was n't me molesting them . |
| 6 | No no it was n't I seen I seen people in the pleasance being silver coated pills . |
| 7 | Roger , was n't I correct in thinking that Paula was also going to look at erm not just accident reports , other sickness for the area , to actually |
| 8 | ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ? |
| 9 | because I was n't I said how come it ends up being that and they said you just carry . |
| 10 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 11 | And he said this and he was n't I mean particularly , he said oh she 's just , you know she , she 's like sailed through Haileybury , she gets out of everything , she , he , he 's really keen on the sports side of things here so I do n't know why he got so het up about it but he said it really er pissed him off the way she erm |
| 12 | ‘ Was n't I born and reared in a mad house ? |
| 13 | Like you take , you take your sons why was n't I born first |
| 14 | ‘ Why was n't I told ? ’ |
| 15 | Was n't I told you have to hold them tight and not for a minute take your eyes off them ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why was n't I told , ’ he grumbled peevishly . |
| 17 | Erm och I remember she was n't I do n't know . |
| 18 | No , it was n't I do n't think it was ca n't be ca n't be twenty five per cent |
| 19 | I was n't I did n't see the herfs , dum Er , the hoofs |
| 20 | At the moment really I ca n't erm specifically recall them , but the I saw the personally , the direction of them , there was n't I did n't agree with erm them , but then there were other erm other citizens erm they saw that they were healthy changes . |
| 21 | ‘ Why the Devil was n't I informed at once ? ’ |
| 22 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 23 | Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers . |