Example sentences of "n't [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 This week , in yet another head-to-head about the threatened Wensleydale railway , he sought assurances from BR that their apparent reluctance to allow charter excursions on the line is n't part of a closure strategy or ‘ stitching the line up ’ , as local campaigner Stan Abbott vividly puts it .
2 I do n't , I do n't bit of a old
3 I have n't bit of a long one that !
4 The charge was n't murder of an unborn child .
5 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 .
6 You ca n't rubble at a line .
7 She had n't time for a fight .
8 ‘ There is n't time for a debate .
9 There just was n't time for a school visit .
10 You do n't chop off a man 's arms while he 's sitting there watching you . ’
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