Example sentences of "was n't [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't money for clothes that she wanted . |
| 2 | It was n't weather for sitting in the garden , but we are fortunate in having windows which look over our own small front garden , and because there is no hedge , beyond to the road . |
| 3 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away . |
| 6 | There certainly was n't time for thought just now , and had there been I 'd probably have been sick . ’ |
| 7 | Helen said , ‘ It was n't time for him to be home yet . ’ |
| 8 | There simply was n't time for lunch and she worked straight through . |
| 9 | There was n't time for more . |
| 10 | There just was n't time for a school visit . |
| 11 | There was n't room for more than one such space hogger at Barnsdale ; after much agonised indecision I finally could n't resist the bronze-leaved Rodgersia pinnata . |
| 12 | There was n't room for her to stay in the flat with the three other girls so they decided that Katrine should stay in Piazza Pitti in Debbie 's flat . |
| 13 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |
| 14 | Carrie walked behind because there was n't room for three on the path , but she was n't afraid . |
| 15 | I could n't stay in Holloway because there was n't room for sentenced women . |
| 16 | There was n't room for two good friends , let alone people who hardly knew each other , to work at the same time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well perhaps there was n't room for her sit in the back ! |