Example sentences of "it be not for you " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |
| 4 | It 's not for you — ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not for you , ’ I replied frostily . |
| 6 | Anyway , you 're grown up now , it 's not for you to be as thick as thieves with the likes of her . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not for you to understand , ’ Nanny said , stifling a small hiccup . |
| 8 | And they say ‘ It 's not for you to think . ’ |
| 9 | 6 If you teach abroad , respect the customs and conventions of the country ; it 's not for you to shock or try to change their society . |
| 10 | Okay well er er that 's the decision we make today so what what why do you think it 's not for you . |
| 11 | ‘ What a pity it 's not for you to guarantee ! |
| 12 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 13 | It is not for you to say that the defendant foresaw the possibility of hitting the bystander : that is for the jury . |
| 14 | It is n't for you ; it 's a common kind of thing , cheap . |
| 15 | ‘ It is n't for you . |
| 16 | It was n't for you to see the point , he said . |
| 17 | " If it was n't for you two , " my mother told us , " I could be off somewhere else . " |
| 18 | I might have stopped it already if it was n't for you . |
| 19 | ‘ You know , Athelstan , if it was n't for you and your bloody logic , I 'd put the entire mystery down to witchcraft . |
| 20 | And perhaps it was n't for you and Maria Luisa … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was not for you to say , ’ said Sarah proudly . |