Example sentences of "it be not [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I 'll be told that it 's not about him at all , in that silly sense . |
| 2 | Anyway , look , it 's not for him to say that he 's gon na keep the trades council movement alive , the trades council movement can well look after itself , without the interference of the dead hand of the T U C. |
| 3 | Well it 's not for him personally |
| 4 | It 's not like him at all , ’ Nurse Bodkin reported . |
| 5 | It 's not like him , especially as we have n't eaten . |
| 6 | It 's not like him , he thought , contemplating their long life together and their long history of loving each other 's girls . |
| 7 | It 's not like him to grumble at a bitch . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I simply can not believe that , for it is not for him to say . |
| 9 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 10 | It was n't on him . |
| 11 | It was n't for him : he was no pansy ; he liked women , not boys with made-up eyes and sly insinuating glances . |
| 12 | It was comforting and easy , but it was n't for him . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't be at Arsenal if it was n't for him . |
| 14 | If it was n't for him , I 'd have talked Dimitri round . |
| 15 | Only this time it was n't for him , but for Billie . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , if it was n't for him … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If it was n't for him we 'd still have the empire . ’ |
| 18 | If it was n't for him it would have been in bits . |
| 19 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 20 | Meredith told him twice to give it a bit more blood and thunder , but it was n't in him . |
| 21 | But it was n't like him to be such a booby . |
| 22 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 23 | It was n't like him , it was out of character , but she was n't acting to character either . |
| 24 | One look at the fleapit that Dirkin dosses in convinces me that if Albie owed ten grand to anyone , it was not to him . |
| 25 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 26 | Since George always did the arriving early and the saving of places , it was not for him to complain . |
| 27 | The Commissioner pointed out that it was not for him to decide how statutes should be interpreted but he was satisfied that the complaints about odours from the factory had not been ignored . |
| 28 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled , knowing it was not for him to ask , nor for them to answer . |
| 29 | It was not like him to delay . |