Example sentences of "[not/n't] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not his choice . |
| 2 | Sir : Apropos the return home of the body of old King Nicholas of Montenegro ( 'Communists allow burial of Montenegro 's last king' , 2 October ) : King Alexander of Yugoslavia was his grandson , not his son-in-law . |
| 3 | The succession to the Scottish throne was not his concern . |
| 4 | The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity . |
| 5 | It 's not his spirit that 's doing it , it is the same person that the disciples spoke to when they walked the streets of Palestine , it is the same person that went around healing the sick , it is the same person that was born in the , in the manger at Bethlehem , he is now , after having died , been raised again by the power of the trying God had , he is now ascended back into heaven , in glorified form , and he is there interceding , representing you and me before his father there in heaven . |
| 6 | The early careers of The Rolling Stones , and others were littered with blues covers and , as a result , originals , like Hooker 's 1956 Vee-Jay version of ‘ Dimples ’ and Tommy Tucker 's ‘ Hi-Heel Sneakers ’ ( but unfortunately not his recording of ‘ Hey Lawdy Mama , Whose Funky Drawers Are These ? ’ ) filtered through to the upper echelons of the British pop charts . |
| 7 | What he brandished on John Major 's doorstep this week — no , not his council tax demand — was a MacInnes axe , designed by Hamish of that ilk , leader of the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team . |
| 8 | Perhaps that is the proposal — The hon. Member for Blackburn is not sure whether that is or is not his proposal . |
| 9 | Another , less obvious factor , seldom mentioned , was that Chapman was planning a major expansion of Lotus ( his road cars and not his race cars ) in America , and Mario was to be , for him , an important marketing tool . |
| 10 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 11 | We already know Ernest existed , but not his position in the family . |
| 12 | Their happiness was to be destroyed by the heart-rending realisation that Kimberly was not his child . |
| 13 | Rumour has it that it is not his child . |
| 14 | If you need to be critical , disapprove of the child 's actions , not his person . |
| 15 | The boy — Anton knew him by sight but not his name — twitched and rolled and jerked and strained and foam bubbled from his mouth . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's not his name , ’ he said . |
| 17 | No , not his name at all . |
| 18 | Robert had still not been able to discover the headmaster 's first name , although on occasions Malik had asked to be addressed as Abdul , while making it clear that this was not his name . |
| 19 | From the look on Quigley 's face , it was obvious that Pike was soon going to wish that Pike was not his name . |
| 20 | It 's not his name but we calls him Thomas because he 's chubby . |
| 21 | Yeah but it 's not , it 's not his name it 's not his name |
| 22 | Yeah but it 's not , it 's not his name it 's not his name |
| 23 | This might be interpreted as an indication that it is not his purpose or intention to present a systematic , coherent and consistent Advaitin account of the concept of Truth or God after the fashion of Śankara , the principal exponent of non-dualism , and that what could be said concerning the metaphysical basis of his thought is that although it purports to be Advaitin it does not preclude the possibility of Dvaita , or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaita , or qualified non-Dualist interpretations of the nature of reality . |
| 24 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 25 | He began to remember , to re-acknowledge his roots , and to realise that immersion in western music was not his purpose , simply a training . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you sure that 's her and not his daughter ? ’ |
| 27 | As a stepmother I should like to say how much I identified and sympathised with the writer of ‘ I Love Him But Not His Daughter ’ ( October GH ) . |
| 28 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 29 | She is quite bitter about what has happened , resentful at what she sees as the inconsistent attitudes towards pregnancy and teenage motherhood held by members of her family and other West Indian people and still upset at her father 's extreme change in attitude towards her when he found out she was not his daughter . |
| 30 | My sister-in-law is just about the same age as me , and whether it 's because she 's not his daughter , but he treats her completely different . |