Example sentences of "it [be] [not/n't] for [pron] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Externalisation or blaming — accepting that there are significant problems but blaming anything other than alcohol or drug use for their cause : " If it were n't for you I 'd be okay " . |
| 2 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |
| 4 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 5 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |