Example sentences of "n't [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it was n't that way at all . |
| 2 | ‘ It is n't true , ’ she denied vehemently , ‘ it was n't that way at all ; it was just — ’ She broke off . |
| 3 | But it was n't that way at all ; it was Rob ! |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't that proof of your guilt ? ’ |
| 5 | Does n't that stem from … from your heartbreak over Gabriella ? ’ |
| 6 | There is n't that degree of distance which the minister himself asked for er in the committee er on which we both sat er in er nineteen eighty nine . |
| 7 | But ( unlike the Tories ) it is n't that kind of outfit . |
| 8 | Of course that had been mostly created by the lack of money , but the instability she saw in Joe was n't that kind of lack , it was something she could n't put her finger on . |
| 9 | She wanted to assure him that she was n't that kind of idiot . |
| 10 | To which Mary Deare replied in a low voice , ‘ It is n't that kind of pain , and then cried out with terrible conviction — Wendy , you are wrong about mothers . |
| 11 | But Gyggle was n't that kind of shrink ; he kept on at me . |
| 12 | ‘ You are n't that kind of person , ’ said Louise . |
| 13 | ‘ This is n't that kind of flatty . ’ |
| 14 | She was n't that kind of girl . ’ |
| 15 | Forget it , he is n't that kind of man . |
| 16 | It is n't that famine in Africa is actually anything new ; the emaciated , wide-eyed child of a decade of Oxfam advertisements is far too familiar to allow that . |
| 17 | I walk into the terminal thinking , Well , at least there is n't that smell of sewage around you sometimes get when you arrive in dear old Embra ; I 'm not sure I could handle that right now . |
| 18 | " Is n't that land over there ? " he exclaimed excitedly . |
| 19 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 20 | You have n't that chapter for the rest of the year and say the teacher probably thinks well this child and |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't that sort of ball . |
| 22 | ‘ But it was n't that sort of wedding , ’ Philippa said . |
| 23 | It was n't that sort of beauty , it was Nature 's beauty , too complex to copy . |
| 24 | Does n't that sort of bring in to the country and she 's out in the country and she wants to show it to them that she she 's sort of she 's still fashionable . |
| 25 | I told you it was n't that sort of relationship . |
| 26 | It would be the height of bad manners , and I know you are n't that sort of person . |
| 27 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 28 | There is n't another ferry off Straker 's Cay till Saturday night and it 's no good expecting me to get any preparatory work done on Wavebreaker till Monday at the earliest , and then it 'll be two or three days before — ‘ |
| 29 | Except there is n't another base at the end of it . |
| 30 | ’ They all looked at me and suddenly , horror struck me : the two or three policemen normally along there had disappeared — had taken a prisoner along to the station — and there was n't another policeman within half a mile . |