Example sentences of "was n't the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't the ref 's decision , though . |
| 2 | ‘ All right , so it was n't the bottle by the bed . |
| 3 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 4 | It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day . |
| 5 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 6 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 7 | Theatre Royal and it was n't the Theatre Royal Haymarket the other Saturday did n't we ? |
| 8 | It actually , that actually was n't the sentence I made , I ca n't count , it was actually the next sentence I wanted you to look at . |
| 9 | This was n't the India I knew : during five previous visits I had never seen women kiss each other . |
| 10 | With his by now legendary disregard for anything current which was n't The Smiths or his personal protégé ( the superb Easterhouse fell in his favour at this time ) , Morrissey performed ceremonial destruction with Sade , Style Council , Ultravox , Carmel , Genesis , Marilyn and , ironically enough , Blue Rondo who by this time were probably bragging about how The Smiths once supported them ; poetic justice indeed . |
| 11 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 12 | We did have a mole catcher in the glen , but he was n't the regular , he just occasionally . |
| 13 | DRA says , however , that Praxis is doing ANDF work on a mystery chip for OSF which it declined to identify , except to say it was n't the Transputer ( the 88000 perhaps ? ) . |
| 14 | Was n't the idea to get rid of the stuff ? |
| 15 | It was too long to remember , but it was n't the idea of being wet that mattered . |
| 16 | Was n't the idea of the United States Of Europe put forward and discussed quite recently ? |
| 17 | It was n't the work , it was the company — the environment . |
| 18 | It was n't the way party dialogues were supposed to go . |
| 19 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 20 | Lucy wanted to call after Charlie , to beg him to come back and to take her away ; this was all wrong , it was n't the way things were supposed to go at all . |
| 21 | That seemed logical , but now he thought about it he was n't sure that that was n't the way to remember the way it was n't , not the way it was . |
| 22 | This was n't the way that she wanted things to be , she told herself a little frantically . |
| 23 | That was n't the way . |
| 24 | ‘ That was n't the way I was used to playing a part . |
| 25 | ‘ But it was n't the sort of business the family company had grown up with , and it was n't the direction it wanted to go . |
| 26 | She leaned heavily on the word ‘ both ’ and Gina knew it was n't the puppy she meant . |
| 27 | Well , she could , but it certainly was n't the geranium . |
| 28 | It was n't the possibility of Louis learning of their presence in the town that was making her so nervous . |
| 29 | No , it was n't the clothes . |
| 30 | Then I saw it was n't the beginning at all . |