Example sentences of "it be not for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 2 | Where would you be now if it were n't for me ? |
| 3 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 4 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |
| 8 | If it were not for them he would not be free , he said . |
| 9 | I 'll ring up and say that it 's not for me . |
| 10 | ‘ Well it 's not for me to advise you , of course … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's his club , he has his opinion , and it 's not for me to be drawn into a public dialogue with him . |
| 12 | What he said was , ‘ It 's not for me to say , Aggie , it 's for her . |
| 13 | I had a few putts with it at home , but it 's not for me , Chris . |
| 14 | " It 's not for me , sir . " |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not for me to say , sir . |
| 16 | No , Kat , it 's not for me . ’ |
| 17 | Whether or not Harry is the right man for you , it 's not for me to say . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not for me , though . |
| 19 | It 's not for me to approve or disapprove . ’ |
| 20 | It 's not for me to question orders , but I should have thought that running him to earth would be a simple police job . " |
| 21 | It 's not for me to come to you , it 's for you to get rid of it . |
| 22 | But it 's not for me … star signs and Mr Wyatt I can do without . ’ |
| 23 | It 's not for me , I ca n't stand you , it 's for my mother-in-law , she liked your book . |
| 24 | It might seem long-winded , but dependent upon er if you get it right at the start with it , it might mean that one of the things we 're suggesting er you might say no , it 's not for me this , but you might think that job analysis is a good way of identifying training . |
| 25 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 26 | well it 's not for me to say . |
| 27 | And sausage and bacon by the side of it , it 's not for me anyone . |
| 28 | So it 's not for me to sort of sit quietly and listen to , record other people , so it 's my conversation they want . |
| 29 | It 's not for me . |
| 30 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |