Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Not me matey boy !
2 ‘ It 's not me Penry Vaughan drives all this way to see , remember . ’
3 You 're not my type darling
4 ‘ It 's not my feet day .
5 Okay it 's not my telephone voice .
6 ‘ It 's not my life frame by frame but my heart is in every scene of this film , ’ he says .
7 It 's not my colour Iris .
8 That was not my understanding Professor Lock .
9 not my stumping shoes
10 They 're not my age group .
11 ‘ It 's not my wedding ring , if that 's what you 're thinking .
12 That 's my dad , not my step dad who 's got like a wank of everything .
13 It 's not my fault Julie got a bit tipsy . ’
14 ‘ He is most definitely not my mystery man , ’ she said , ramming the gear-stick emphatically home , then wincing apologetically .
15 And , by best interests , as you know , I mean her studies , not her love life . ’
16 Had not her sister Alice cautioned her of the dangers in being alone with a man , now that she had reached marriageable age ?
17 It 's not her fault Petya wo n't speak to me ; it 's just that he turned against me when I divorced his mother .
18 That must be disturbing him greatly ; for , after all , though the Rabbi was not her blood relation and she had known him only since her marriage , even for her it was an intolerable wrench .
19 Meredith speculated whether or not her dinner guest would go to her funeral .
20 Uxbridge , Middlesex-based , Kew Research Ltd has an informal agreement with Raidtec Inc 's Irish subsidiary Raidtec Ltd in Cork and not its US operation ( UX No 414 ) .
21 What changes with the appearance of the vertebrates are not its building blocks or basic sources of energy utilization and transmission , but the organizing principles of the nervous system as a whole — a system that now contains the fully fledged learning and memory capacities that are the properties of all mammals , including , in their greatly expanded forms , primates , amongst them of course humans .
22 Obversely he comments that , whilst the history department at Birkbeck College in London got a well-deserved five in the latest research assessment exercise — neither the quality of the research not its subject area could possibly be seen as being solely dependent on the strengths of the library of that college .
23 The poignancy of that piece is the circumstance of its composition , not its subject matter .
24 A better way to get the same result , you might think , would be to adjust Hong Kong 's currency , not its price tickets , by vigorously upvaluing the Hong Kong dollar against the American one .
25 Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed .
26 It 's the southbound Watford Gap services with the golden kettle , not their northbound colleagues .
27 It was , he continued , more important than ever to ensure that leases were well-drafted so as to make landlords and/or tenants fully aware as to whether or not their insurance policies covered damage caused by terrorism .
28 An inexperienced breeder should consult a vet or an experienced breeder for advice on whether or not their dipped-back mare would be suitable for breeding .
29 Neither Mr Brown nor Ms Reno , and certainly not their boss Mr Clinton , has so far supported legalisation .
30 They are also given the right to decide whether or not their union subscriptions are collected by automatic deduction from their pay .
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