Example sentences of "n't my " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is n't my Nanny . |
| 2 | ‘ It is n't my wedding . ’ |
| 3 | This is n't my natural colour by the way . ’ |
| 4 | I knew he had no home , but that was n't my problem . |
| 5 | ‘ You know that I know that was n't my piece of stuff . |
| 6 | Mum kept calling her ‘ sister ’ , but she was n't my sister — Annie was and I did n't want to stay there , but they went off and left me . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry you … but it was n't my fault , was it ? ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ I left the gallery because it was n't my moment , ’ says Koons . |
| 9 | As they reached the entrance gate , he felt it was time to add : ‘ Look , this was n't my idea , you know . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't my idea , ’ he said , handing out the apples . |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't my fault , ’ he began to say to himself . |
| 12 | What part the Jews play in that is n't my concern . ’ |
| 13 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 14 | ‘ But she just is n't my girlfriend . |
| 15 | ‘ It was n't my turn , Sam . |
| 16 | ‘ I know it ai n't my looks they like , ’ he says , self-deprecating of his figure by McDonalds , hair by Flymo . |
| 17 | I hope it was n't my favourite armchair either ! |
| 18 | ‘ A n't my garridge , ’ says the youth in a broad Rummidge accent . |
| 19 | The fact in the mirror was n't my face . |
| 20 | ‘ The face in the mirror was n't my face . |
| 21 | Music is n't my life any more . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It is n't my turn ! ’ said Henry . |
| 23 | Like them she hated false endings , dishonest resolutions , a pretence that the half-told tale is finished : ‘ This is n't the whole story : this is n't my statement . |
| 24 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 25 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 26 | P.C. Well , Sir , if I have neglected my duty in the past , why have n't my superior officers done their duty and made a defaulter of me . |
| 27 | Plays , too , ai n't my line much ; I 'd sooner go to a dance — it 's more livelier . |
| 28 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 29 | It is n't my style . |
| 30 | To drag Karen 's personality into it would be an unfair handicap , but even from a purely physical point of view she was n't my type . |