Example sentences of "it [be] n't for you " 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 | It is n't for you ; it 's a common kind of thing , cheap . |
5 | ‘ It is n't for you . |
6 | It was n't for you to see the point , he said . |
7 | " If it was n't for you two , " my mother told us , " I could be off somewhere else . " |
8 | I might have stopped it already if it was n't for you . |
9 | ‘ You know , Athelstan , if it was n't for you and your bloody logic , I 'd put the entire mystery down to witchcraft . |
10 | And perhaps it was n't for you and Maria Luisa … ’ |