Example sentences of "not [pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not my way to leave behind a wrecked side |
| 2 | It 's not my place to talk about her , anyway , but she is wrapped up in her own life , and her husband 's politics — she met him when she belonged to some very radical student group at Oxford . |
| 3 | As for the patient , it 's not my place to comment on his medical condition , except to say that he is still quite definitely alive and in the best possible hands . ’ |
| 4 | It is not my job to comment on the policy of the County Council . |
| 5 | It is not my intention to describe in detail a particular course at a particular institution . |
| 6 | In fact this put severe restrictions on the committee 's deliberations , and the chairman repeatedly had to advise counsel for both the GMC and the defence that it was not their function to comment on the relative merits or otherwise of alternative forms of medicine . |
| 7 | The king believed that although Lancaster and his followers claimed to be acting in the king 's name they would in fact create disorder and in any case ‘ it was not their duty to act as judge and do justice ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ God grant he will soon regain his freedom — I know not which way to turn without him and Vaughan to advise me . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was not his responsibility to deal with terrorist opposition . |
| 11 | Pilger was not at all convinced that the NoS sales target was viable , but it was not his job to worry about that . |
| 12 | Somehow it was not his business and certainly it was not his business to pander to it . |
| 13 | It is not his duty to die at a general 's whim . ’ |
| 14 | But it 's not our job to think about that , it 's outside our influence . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not our policy to comment on property matters , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It is not our policy to comment on sentencing relating to individual cases , which is , of course , a matter for the courts . ’ |
| 17 | The official of the Board concerned , G. G. Williams , sounded almost regretful when he said , ‘ It is not our practice to interfere with an Authority 's discretion when the scales are not over-generous in our opinion ’ . |
| 18 | It is not our wish to profit from such assignment , and in the unlikely event of our recovering more than such compensation and costs , any excess will be paid to the injured clients . |
| 19 | It is not your job to worry about whether you threaten the stability of the world economy . |
| 20 | It was n't my place to indulge to anyone , even you who I adore . |
| 21 | It was n't their way to come in the open . |
| 22 | Graham Rowell was only concerned with how he was going to treat a condition or an injury ; he said it was n't his job to worry about how it could have been prevented in the first place . ’ |