Example sentences of "[not/n't] a [noun sg] [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian the other children spoke in school was not a dialect like my Triestino and in many subjects I was in any case behind the others , a thought which made me very unhappy . |
| 2 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 3 | Not a sign of my barrel-bag . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's me with thirty-five men to feed , and not a morsel in my larder tent ! ’ |
| 5 | You 're not a part of my life any more . ’ |
| 6 | I bided my time but patience was still not a part of my nature no matter how continually I courted it . |
| 7 | The fact that a very similar kind of furniture can be bought in an enormous variety of different places , there 's not this same idea that ‘ Oh , I would n't ever go in that sort of shop to buy it because it 's not a place for my sort of person ’ . |
| 8 | Not a week of my childhood passed without some mention of the disaster of 1880 , when a particularly cruel winter laid waste thirty years ’ vegetation . |
| 9 | Not a nerve in my body , perfectly prepared , calm as a courgette . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't a man in my life because I do n't want one . |