Example sentences of "be [not/n't] with the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
2 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
3 | Our concern , however , is not with the difficulties of aesthetics , but only with what a critic writes of aesthetic experience , and how useful such an account may be . |
4 | If Anna 's not with the navvies I 'll try to get some of their men to search between your camp and the new road . ’ |
5 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
6 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
7 | When I was n't with the animals I spent hours playing with my favourite toy , a large piece of wood which I pretended was our horse , Dicks . |