Example sentences of "it [be] not for i " in BNC.
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1 | Where would you be now if it were n't for me ? |
2 | ‘ 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 ! |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | I 'll ring up and say that it 's not for me . |
5 | ‘ Well it 's not for me to advise you , of course … ’ |
6 | ‘ It 's his club , he has his opinion , and it 's not for me to be drawn into a public dialogue with him . |
7 | What he said was , ‘ It 's not for me to say , Aggie , it 's for her . |
8 | I had a few putts with it at home , but it 's not for me , Chris . |
9 | " It 's not for me , sir . " |
10 | ‘ It 's not for me to say , sir . |
11 | No , Kat , it 's not for me . ’ |
12 | Whether or not Harry is the right man for you , it 's not for me to say . |
13 | ‘ It 's not for me , though . |
14 | It 's not for me to approve or disapprove . ’ |
15 | It 's not for me to question orders , but I should have thought that running him to earth would be a simple police job . " |
16 | It 's not for me to come to you , it 's for you to get rid of it . |
17 | But it 's not for me … star signs and Mr Wyatt I can do without . ’ |
18 | It 's not for me , I ca n't stand you , it 's for my mother-in-law , she liked your book . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | well it 's not for me to say . |
22 | And sausage and bacon by the side of it , it 's not for me anyone . |
23 | So it 's not for me to sort of sit quietly and listen to , record other people , so it 's my conversation they want . |
24 | It 's not for me . |
25 | 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 ’ . |
26 | But it is not for me to moralize . |
27 | Thus , it is not for me to sit in judgement upon Daniel Miller . |
28 | Asked about the ‘ race question ’ , Mr Taylor said : ‘ It is not for me to start making allegations . ’ |
29 | SIR — Perhaps it is not for me , as a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church , to comment on ‘ the precise purpose ’ of Cardinal Hume 's visit to Moscow ( report , April 16 ) . |
30 | Of course , it is not for me to suggest that I am worthy of ever being placed alongside the likes of the ‘ great ’ butlers of our generation , such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane — though it should be said there are those who , perhaps out of misguided generosity , tend to do just this . |