Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Er , Tracey and that lot was it not them as ninth years or something ? |
2 | Not me on my shopping trip . |
3 | Well he , he was asking me which I 'd prefer and I said I think you ought to consider Vicki not me on the crossing . |
4 | So when , in 1959 , it was decided to build a mid-engined car , I was violently affronted that Berthon and his staff at Bourne would design it , and not me at Folkingham . |
5 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
6 | ‘ Perhaps it 's just as well it 's not me in his line of fire . |
7 | That 's not me by the way in case you thought I was phoning myself it 's not me . |
8 | Make not his Worth the Measure of your Song ; |
9 | He hugged Cameron and said , ‘ Mister Campsie , Mister Campsie ’ — his voice cooed on a high note , not his at all , as though he was possessed by the spirit of a woman who had nursed him once . |
10 | That 's not yours for a |
11 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
12 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
13 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
14 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
15 | ‘ But , as I recollect it , I — or rather we — escorted you to your room that night , not you to ours . |
16 | ‘ It 's not you at all ! |
17 | I mean you out there , not you in here . |
18 | No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in |
19 | As the Government , with their policies of dividing society , have been responsible for the breakdown in law and order , can not we at least expect bobbies back on the beat to protect us ? |
20 | Within this dynamic , we can affect and create cultural forms and an agenda which bring the non-disabled world to us , not we to it . |
21 | Should not we as a practical matter offer them the facilities of Burghfield and Dounreay to do something about the beryllium and other toxic compounds which are doubtless leaking from ill-maintained equipment ? |
22 | But what he was protecting was not her at all . |
23 | As a doctor it would have been so easy , and that very easiness , not her by now nominal Catholicism , had held her back , temporarily , from what she knew would be inevitable one day … before she was forty . |
24 | Not that spotty youth in the army-surplus overcoat , what 's his name , Cliff , not him for God 's sake . |
25 | ‘ May I point out that you 're sitting on his shoulder , not him on yours , ’ said the Thing . |
26 | ‘ That is not him at all , ’ Gail Rebuck says emphatically . |
27 | ‘ It 's not him in hospital . |
28 | He found Merlyn Rock where , in the summer of 1595 , the Spaniards landed and burned the village along with Newlyn and Penzance ; then in the gathering dusk he made his way up the hill out of the village to Paul and the church of St Pol de Leon ( not he of Tarsus but a Celtic gentleman ) , also burned by the Spaniards and rebuilt afterwards . |
29 | ‘ I am not he of Tellenor , ’ said my dad , who was always good at bluffing . |
30 | Is not it beyond the realms of possibility that the Secretary of State and railway management have got it wrong on this occasion ? |