Example sentences of "[not/n't] my [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's not my secret to tell .
2 ‘ It 's not my secret , ’ he said slowly .
3 ‘ Er — it 's not my secret , ’ Maggie said evasively , getting up and wondering whether to dive into the water and refuse to surface .
4 Mike Brearley , the subsequent England captain and a Cambridge graduate with a distinctly academic turn of mind , was revealing in his reasons for turning down the offer , which would have overturned the historical structure of international cricket : ‘ Money apart , Kerry Packer is not my style .
5 Not my style . ’
6 Sonic The Hedgehog was ‘ incredibly fast-moving , but it 's not my style , ’ he said .
7 That 's just not my style . ’
8 Not my style , poetry . ’
9 Two veg and Oxo gravy is not my style .
10 ‘ That 's not my style of thing at all . ’
11 It 's not my style .
12 ‘ It 's not my style , ’ she added with bravura .
13 ‘ That 's not my style , Ian — you should realise that I set great store by not creating ‘ scenes ’ ; by not making those that I esteem suffer any unnecessary discomfort , whether it be social , physical , or otherwise . ’
14 Not my style . ’
15 Describing the homes and environment of rich Spanish counts and their sisters is not my style .
16 Psychic imperialism is not my style .
17 You bet your boots it 's not my style .
18 It 's not my style .
19 I 'll give you examples perhaps of none , none of these I must admit I , I do n't , I do n't think , they 're not my style I much more my page my training tend to have just two or three points on it rubber stamps on the side flipchart all this sort of stuff big question .
20 If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style .
21 ‘ Certainly , I have benefited financially from Amstrad and could now just walk away without personal financial worries but that is not my style .
22 This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there .
23 It is not my experience that physical hardship ‘ brings out the best in a man ’ .
24 That is not my experience .
25 ( Not my experience in several recent trips into Aberystwyth — KWL )
26 It 's not my experience , sitting there in the in the clinics .
27 You should n't be , but that 's not my experience .
28 Well , it 's not my money , it 's Scott 's .
29 " It 's not my money really .
30 I thought that you loved me , and not my money . ’
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