Example sentences of "was n't [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well naturally there was n't a rush . |
| 2 | ‘ He was n't a burglar , ’ I said , joining Nassim at the top of the stairs . |
| 3 | ‘ The dead man was n't a burglar is what I 'm saying . |
| 4 | ‘ The guy was n't a burglar , he was coming here because he used to know someone who lived here before . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't a pie , it was a casserole . |
| 6 | But then the columns of moulding moved in soundlessly and it was n't a tent after all . |
| 7 | She did n't , actually , but if there was n't a proverb to fit then it was time someone wrote one . |
| 8 | ‘ I was n't a smasher when I started , I became one , ’ observes Miss Stetson . |
| 9 | No , it was n't a smell . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , as a marriage , it was n't … well , it was n't a marriage in the conventional sense . |
| 11 | It certainly was n't a kitchen knife . ’ |
| 12 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 13 | It was n't a request . |
| 14 | It was n't a request . |
| 15 | He was n't a crook this man ? |
| 16 | I did a quick triple-take and having made sure there was n't a ventriloquist anywhere , I said : |
| 17 | It was n't a story that put anyone in a good light . |
| 18 | I know I had to explain to somebody in Chambers the other day something to do with the Corpus that it was n't where was the story there was n't a story |
| 19 | Yet it was n't a success . |
| 20 | Oh yes , once , yes once ; but it was n't a success . |
| 21 | Well it was n't a success was it ? |
| 22 | She respected money and had n't time for anything , no matter how beautiful , that was n't a success commercially . |
| 23 | His marriage , which had been arranged by his family , was n't a success , and , following a Diomede tradition , I was sent to England for my schooling . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The pity is , I was n't a boy , ’ she told him , her voice still indifferent , her face calm , quite unlike any Sally-Anne her parents had ever known . |
| 26 | It was n't a boy at all . |
| 27 | This was n't a reflection of his feelings about me , I knew that , and when pressed he would only say that the most resounding impression she gave was of her innate class . |
| 28 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 29 | he 's , it was n't a minute struggle , you , you kept harping on all week he 's in , in the |
| 30 | It was n't a cat . |