Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I am not one to judge on first impressions I stepped tentatively inside . |
| 2 | I am not one to accuse the hon. Gentleman of misrepresenting the position ; I know and like him too much for that . |
| 3 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not one to fuss about women 's rights . |
| 5 | Even though I 'm not one to go out , some days you wish you did n't have someone dependent on you and could just go out and about . |
| 6 | They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not one to speak ill of my betters , as you know , ’ said Mrs Cornforth , ‘ but her Ladyship 's remarks within Thomas 's hearing about my profiteroles Angels would not forgive ! ’ |
| 8 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 9 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 10 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 11 | So you can work it out now , how old I am Erm , what I do , is I run training courses and er , they are Management Skills Courses , they are not anything to do with insurances , because I know absolutely damn all about insurance . |
| 12 | but I know Kay was n't very pleased with Sister about these sort of erm stout things , cos Sister said well if they 're not collected by the time of the next jumble , we sort of empty the cupboard and put them all in for erm the jumble sale Kay said to me they 're not hers to do that with |
| 13 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 14 | And they were n't nothing to do with House ! |
| 15 | They were about five yards apart and he was just deciding they were n't anything to do with him when they both took out pistols . |
| 16 | Er one question less than five percent it will not be but I do n't want to go and indeed I , for reasons that er David outlined , I ca n't go , ca n't be precise , but er it 's not something to get scared about . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not mine to sell , Harry . |
| 18 | " It 's not mine to sell . " |
| 19 | until they collect it , it 's not , it 's not mine to keep , have to give it back |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not mine to share with you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not anything to do with biology or psychology or any science or the old philosophies — it 's something so deep that even the most delicately poised approach almost inevitably occludes it . |
| 22 | It 's individuals , it 's not anything to do with Glasgow . |
| 23 | ‘ This haste , ’ said Paul , ‘ it 's not anything to do with Zeinab , is it ? ’ |
| 24 | It is not one to rally the world 's peasantries , pastoralists and other land-users to change the social conditions which bring about soil erosion in the first place . |
| 25 | Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use . |
| 26 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
| 27 | It is n't anything to do with government at all . |
| 28 | And it says then it is n't anything to do with intelligence or anything like that . |
| 29 | They were talking about language on Radio Four and erm what people e , it is n't anything to do with the training course we 're on , it 's the language . |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't anything to do with the group . |