Example sentences of "be not [prep] i [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 's not for me to find out . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ Well it 's not for me to advise you , of course … ’ |
| 33 | It 's not for me to question orders , but I should have thought that running him to earth would be a simple police job . " |
| 34 | It was not for me to tell him . |
| 35 | However , it was not for me to tell him how to treat his advisers , and half an hour later three civil servants arrived with their notebooks whereupon I dictated my suggestions to them . |
| 36 | It is quite common , in everyday discourse , to say things like ‘ I was n't really myself ’ or ‘ It was n't like me to do that ’ . |