Example sentences of "i be n't the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Shakespeare left his wife his ‘ second best bed ’ , and an industrialist from Philadelphia who died in 1947 included among his bequests , ‘ to my wife I leave her lover , and the knowledge that I was n't the fool she thought I was ’ . |
| 2 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 4 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 5 | I was n't the sort of girl when I was younger that men lean out of cars and shout things to , and I 'm glad . |
| 6 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 7 | What are you trying to say … that I was n't the woman involved ? |
| 8 | I mean , I was n't the world you know . |
| 9 | I 've had to accept that the kind of woman who attracts me is n't the kind to sit at home having babies and darning my socks . |