Example sentences of "it be [not/n't] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't for my kids now I 'd be doing untold things . |
| 2 | If it were n't for my sister I 'd turn the whole matter over to the police and let them find Garry . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 4 | And him with nothing to his name if it were n't for my late mistress ! ’ |
| 5 | It were n't in my paper this morning |
| 6 | As one Pisticci peasant puts it : ‘ if it were not for my family , I 'd not be wearing myself out ’ . |
| 7 | If it were not for my concern for my grandmother , I would — I would put you out of the car right now , I would let you wait beside the road until someone took pity on you and offered to drive you back to Milano . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And no , it 's not about my laundry . ’ |
| 9 | well it 's not for my house , it 's for yours |
| 10 | It 's not on my desk |
| 11 | It 's not erm it 's not on my list . |
| 12 | It 's not in my nature to hurt people . |
| 13 | " This bloke said , " Well , it depends on discretion , you 're not entitled , you know , and it 's not in my hands , my superior has to decide . " |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not in my handwriting ; it is printed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But it 's not in my nature to allow myself to be altered by another . |
| 16 | Er , it 's not in my nature to be authoritarian with my students but if I could be authoritarian I would say look , you 're not allowed to use that word , and if you do you 've got ta pay a pound . |
| 17 | That 's why it 's not in my diary . |
| 18 | yeah erm because it 's not in my nature to be aggressive |
| 19 | It 's not in my interests to mark another fifty papers . |
| 20 | It 's not in my guitar . |
| 21 | It 's a great beach but it 's not like my home beach of Port Philip Bay , in Melbourne , which is a bit messy , but seeing the sea I get a great urge to swim in it . |
| 22 | it 's not like my brother did in his physics degree where he sort of ended up getting twelve percent overall in his second year and then took the year again and got six percent erm that 's very difficult to do in psychology erm |
| 23 | ‘ If it is not worth my continuing , sir , I shall not do so . |
| 24 | Wonderful music , but in the theatre — well , I must say it is not to my taste . |
| 25 | He points out that sometimes we have control over our ideas , and sometimes not : often we can set ourselves to imagine what we want ; at other times , however , as in broad daylight , ‘ it is not in my power to … determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not in my power , Julius and Ethel Rosenberg , to forgive you . |
| 27 | It is not in my body as it might appear to others ( if they put their tongue in my mouth ) but does appear to me ( who has got my tongue in my mouth ) that I have pains . |
| 28 | It is not in my view surprising that a principle enunciated in relation to the rigours of seafaring life during the Napoleonic wars should be subjected during the succeeding 180 years to a process of refinement and limitation in its application in the present day . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not in my nature , ’ Frere appealed . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not in my brief to take sides . ’ |