Example sentences of "one 's [noun] but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shorthouse described his book as ‘ a philosophic romance , written as a protest on behalf of culture of every kind against fanaticism and superstition in every form , including the fanaticism of work … to exalt the unpopular notion that the end of one 's life is not the good of one 's neighbour but one 's own culture . ’ |
| 2 | And if in the present case the staff plan is at fault , blame can be laid at no one 's door but my own . |
| 3 | And , never having met such an abominable man , she actually heard herself telling him just how large the mortgage on the apartment was , and , while she was recovering from having actually told him something she regarded as no one 's business but her own , and was taking another breath to rage on , he got in first . |
| 4 | " No one 's business but your own . " |
| 5 | Well , erm , it 's difficult to make forecasts , particularly with the S E C breathing down one 's neck but I think one can say that the industry conditions , if you were to read the reports of other companies and for us , is pretty much erm , status quo , in other words the domestic excuse me , domestic industry 's doing quite well , the rig , the rig count 's up , the Canadian rig count 's up , international markets remain rather soggy but some of them are qui you know on a , on a selective basis some are quite good . |
| 6 | No one 's fault but my own , not even my fault , in a way , but that does n't make it any easier , does it ? |