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Examples
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PS She bain't be no clone, if she bain't have identical chromosomes.
Doctor Who - The Doctor's Daughter annawaits 2008
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Then I got my reg'lar man, an 'he bain't failed me.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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"A'course, if the hill bain't there, ye wouldn't have to ask, eh?"
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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"A'course, if the hill bain't there, ye wouldn't have to ask, eh?"
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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"God!" he repeated, "Who's He; Him's mighty clever to fix up these little bits of things, bain't He?"
Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer
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"But how comes it you bain't a-gone wi 'the Cap'en and t'others?"
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Come now, 'tis true I bain't much of a scholard, but I'm blessed if I can't swear to my awn name when I sees un."
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"Na, she bain't," said Jenny, eying poor innocent Alick as a colley might eye a wolf sniffing about the fold.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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"No, not ezactly: I goes to Fowey, but they bain't over a step or so apart -- a matter o 'six miles, say."
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"You be Pollie Turner, bain't yer, what lives upstairs with yer mother?" he asked at last.
Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer
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