Example sentences of "n't [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the extent to which women 's studies can remember that her mother was not Athena , but the Women 's Liberation Movement , a grass roots political movement with roots in the civil rights movement of the 1960s ; a movement blazing with lesbian energy whose earliest journals had names like , It Ai n't Me Babe , No More Fun and Games , Off Our Backs , Up From Under and The Furies . |
| 2 | Remember that scare quotes themselves are simply disclaimers ( " this is n't my word , so do n't blame me for its implications " ) ; they do not solve — or even identify — the problems that the word presents . |
| 3 | Would n't my dismissal , inevitable eventually , have been a whole lot more unpleasant at that stage ? |
| 4 | That was n't my notion of myself at all . |
| 5 | That was n't my handwriting . |
| 6 | No I could n't my money all the time . |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't my request , sir . |
| 8 | ‘ Why does n't my dad live with us ? ’ |
| 9 | Mum kept calling her ‘ sister ’ , but she was n't my sister — Annie was and I did n't want to stay there , but they went off and left me . |
| 10 | ‘ Sometimes I wish you were n't my sister . |
| 11 | Ah cos th m people wo n't my skin about . |
| 12 | Stubbly is n't a big man and he 's unfit and much older than me , but violence is n't my scene . |
| 13 | But why is n't my calculator working ? |
| 14 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 15 | I knew he had no home , but that was n't my problem . |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't my problem . ’ |
| 17 | It is n't my problem . ’ |
| 18 | This is n't my problem at all , it 's yours ! ’ |
| 19 | Oh but this is n't my bit of cheese in |
| 20 | It was n't my character , but circumstances which were to blame . |
| 21 | ‘ She always says that on the court she is n't a mum for me and I ca n't imagine that she is n't my mum . |
| 22 | Er , my dad said he 's voted Liberal Democrat , but he did n't my mum voted Labour she 's |
| 23 | My mum does n't my mum no , it 's like my brother , my brother Jimmy 's really nice . |
| 24 | That was my Mum 's best friend it were n't my Mum . |
| 25 | It is n't my story at all , his family are completely different from mine , his background is completely different … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It was n't my case any longer , ’ Maxham said . |
| 27 | This really is n't my day , she thought when , as she pushed at whoever it was , she was again caught off balance . |
| 28 | She were n't my kid . |
| 29 | It is n't my secret , but another person 's . ’ |
| 30 | it was n't my secret to divulge . |