Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] fault " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 2 | He said , it 's not my fault if people are stupid . |
| 3 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not my fault . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not my fault , ’ she whimpered in the dark of the hall , ‘ indeed it is not my fault , and nobody can blame me , nobody can raise their voice to me , for it is not my fault . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is not my fault , ’ she whimpered in the dark of the hall , ‘ indeed it is not my fault , and nobody can blame me , nobody can raise their voice to me , for it is not my fault . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is not my fault , ’ she whimpered in the dark of the hall , ‘ indeed it is not my fault , and nobody can blame me , nobody can raise their voice to me , for it is not my fault . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know we 're going to die it 's not my fault , oh my God ! ’ |
| 9 | The theme running through all these myths about behaviour is ‘ Do n't blame me , it 's not my fault . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not my fault , ’ Phillis said , ‘ we were robbed . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not my fault , Jack , I do n't do anything , I swear I do n't . |
| 12 | I do n't know why I apologised because it was not my fault that the Crowninshield twins were cocaine freaks , nor that their father wanted to charter Wavebreaker , but I sympathised with Ellen 's distaste for cocaine and was foolish enough to say as much . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not my fault that these people do n't understand what dancing is . |
| 14 | It 's all over and done with , not my fault if you did n't take it in then … |
| 15 | ‘ That 's not my fault . ’ |
| 16 | … now I am in the wrong , and it 's not my fault . |
| 17 | I served an apprenticeship , worked hard and now I am in the wrong and it is not my fault . |
| 18 | ‘ Not my fault ’ , says ex-director Rudi Fuchs |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not my fault , the company expects me to be there . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Its not my fault . |
| 21 | Look what they did to me , that 's what caused me to be like this , it 's not my fault . |
| 22 | It 's not my fault , but I feel guilty . |
| 23 | I know it 's not my fault in any way , and still I feel guilty . |
| 24 | This applies not only to the anger implicit in embarrassment or defensiveness ( " it 's not my fault , it 's yours ! " ) but also in our apparently most reasoned attitudes — " I fear and am ashamed of my own homosexual feeling ; I am angry with it in itself ; I will project this anger outside me but I can not admit why ; all homosexuals should be shot because they corrupt little children ! " |
| 25 | ‘ That 's not my fault ! ’ said Monks quickly . |
| 26 | It 's not my fault Julie got a bit tipsy . ’ |
| 27 | And it 's not fair to say it 's because of the beard because the beard 's not my fault , they just did n't shave in the jungle in whatever century it 's going to be when we get there and I know I grew it early but that 's the way I am , I like to start thinking myself into the part as soon as possible . |
| 28 | trying to put it in the bin , , not my fault . |
| 29 | Stated I had done report to justify it and had the expenditure approved — not my fault . |
| 30 | And it 's not my fault that women have periods , ’ finished Matt . |