Example sentences of "was n't my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he had no home , but that was n't my problem . |
| 2 | ‘ You know that I know that was n't my piece of stuff . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry you … but it was n't my fault , was it ? ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ I left the gallery because it was n't my moment , ’ says Koons . |
| 6 | As they reached the entrance gate , he felt it was time to add : ‘ Look , this was n't my idea , you know . |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't my idea , ’ he said , handing out the apples . |
| 8 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 9 | ‘ It was n't my turn , Sam . |
| 10 | I hope it was n't my favourite armchair either ! |
| 11 | The fact in the mirror was n't my face . |
| 12 | ‘ The face in the mirror was n't my face . |
| 13 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 14 | To drag Karen 's personality into it would be an unfair handicap , but even from a purely physical point of view she was n't my type . |
| 15 | It still was n't my kind of body , but dressed like that it looked quite different , a gym teacher 's body , supple , firm and fit . |
| 16 | As I watched her turn and bend and lie back , oiled and tanned , her supple contours powered by a madness only I knew about , the idea that Karen ‘ was n't my type ’ seemed a quaint irrelevance . |
| 17 | But it was n't my standard terror-dream . |
| 18 | ‘ A ’ comes round quite a lot to get her eyebrows done and she was quite hurt when she found out that she was n't my type — ‘ what 's the matter with me ? ’ |
| 19 | Oh , all right , it is true , but it was n't my fault . |
| 20 | Nicholas said , ‘ The Feast Day was n't my idea . |
| 21 | ‘ God 's will only who lives and dies … was n't my fault some of the crew and near all those damn niggers took the flux . ’ |
| 22 | But he was n't my boyfriend . ’ |
| 23 | To be honest I 'm beginning to get fed up with being so useless and just wish that ‘ Failure ’ was n't my middle name . |
| 24 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 25 | It was interesting first time out , but after a couple of them I realised it was n't my cup of tea . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , I guess it just was n't my thing . ’ |
| 27 | I began to hum and before I knew it , a tidal wave of crystal-clear sound swept my voice to hitherto undiscovered heights and depths , racing through tunnels of octaves until the sound was n't my own and my ears heard a stranger singing . |
| 28 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't my fault , Miss Hardbroom ! ’ |
| 30 | It was n't my fault . ’ |