Example sentences of "not his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " question " violates Grice 's maxim of quantity in that it requests information which the captain neither needs , nor is interested in , and implicates not his concern at Anderson 's threats but rather his awareness of the professor 's empty pomposity . |
| 2 | The early careers of The Rolling Stones , and others were littered with blues covers and , as a result , originals , like Hooker 's 1956 Vee-Jay version of ‘ Dimples ’ and Tommy Tucker 's ‘ Hi-Heel Sneakers ’ ( but unfortunately not his recording of ‘ Hey Lawdy Mama , Whose Funky Drawers Are These ? ’ ) filtered through to the upper echelons of the British pop charts . |
| 3 | We already know Ernest existed , but not his position in the family . |
| 4 | No , not his name at all . |
| 5 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 6 | this is not his sense of humour but it is visual , it involves the audience . |
| 7 | The result was better , but not his idea of a distinguished author . |
| 8 | Not his idea of a Saturday nights entertainment . |
| 9 | If you charged Musicians Union rates no one hired you : if you did n't , your fellow musicians hated you : and to stand up there on a platform for four hours disappointing a room full of people was not his idea of living . |
| 10 | If that is so , I can at least understand his anxiety — if not his way of showing it . ’ |
| 11 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 12 | It was not his sort of place , this friend Mrs Shottery not his kind of person . |
| 13 | Is not his rejection of the social charter a kick in the teeth to the best employers and a massive boost to sweatshop , anti-union employers in Britain ? |
| 14 | And the poser 's dead embarrassed because this other boy knows him and he 's just spotted him trying to get off with a girl in a shop , not his sort of style at all , and he blushes all over , scarlet , even his ears , I noticed the ears . |
| 15 | but he just , it 's not , somehow it 's hi , not his sort of thing . |
| 16 | What is it it 's not his sort of |
| 17 | Is not his solution of private consultants to be engaged by competitive schools asking for trouble , because it creates an automatic conflict of interest and renders their reports suspect by definition ? |
| 18 | What interested Ian now , however , was not his relations with his superior but quite another matter . |
| 19 | It follows therefore , that a fireman fighting a fire at a factory which is not his place of employment , will not be able to sue for breach of such a statutory duty ( Hartley v Mayoh & Co [ 1954 ] 1 QB 383 ) . |
| 20 | It was the folds of the banner , lying thick and cold in the shelter below , that saved his life , but not his skull from the blow that deprived him of consciousness . |
| 21 | The Taxman expressed moral outrage at such a suggestion , declared that this was not his conception of the implications of being in loco parentis , and said that he , as a parent and husband , would have no hesitation in reporting the criminal actions of his child or indeed his wife , particularly if he saw no sign of either remorse or an intention to reform . |
| 22 | La Chalker was not his cup of tea anyway . |
| 23 | Whether or not his redefinition of democracy salvages what classical theorists meant by ‘ democracy ’ is one of the points on which his work has been most criticised . |
| 24 | 'T IS not his Comment on the artless Lines , |
| 25 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 26 | This was n't his idea of a proper place for his band to play . |
| 27 | So , that is n't his purpose for you and for me . |
| 28 | Miss Firbank added : ‘ It 's just a pity that when Prince Charles declared his love , it was n't his wife on the other end of the line . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ His strength is n't his attraction as a sex symbol , ’ says Isabel Lindsay , who was the SNP 's political campaign director in the Eighties . |
| 30 | Living as he did high above the Thames on the fringe of the city , this was n't his part of London . |