Example sentences of "[be] n't here [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Since our friends are n't here to push us , " said Bigwig , " we may as well make sure the place is n't crawling with stoats and owls before we go out . " |
| 2 | That you are n't here to blackmail someone ? |
| 3 | What he would do if I were n't here to look after him , I 'm sure I do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Feeling sorry for yourself , are you , since Adam is n't here to share your idyll ? ’ |
| 5 | Three ships sunk on this patrol ; three merchantmen sent to the bottom , and thank God Vi was n't here to see this ! |
| 6 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was n't here to take care of things , how on earth would you manage ? |
| 8 | But she was n't here to speculate on her cousin 's love-life . |
| 9 | Head down , she insisted she WAS N'T here to promote her new movie Death Becomes Her , in which she plays an actress worried about her looks . |
| 10 | ‘ I said I was n't here to make moral judgments , that all we wanted was to understand what this project was all about and where it is leading . |
| 11 | He was n't here to make jokes . |
| 12 | Simon : he was n't here to help her and she had no idea what had happened to him . |
| 13 | It had gone now , its place taken by a summer suit Claudia loved at first sight , but she was n't here to buy clothes — she must find Dana . |