Example sentences of "not the [noun] [prep] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
| 2 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone who knows Jo would realise that she 's not the kind of person to do that , ’ he said . |
| 4 | If you 're not the kind of person who is used to daydreaming , try a simple one first . |
| 5 | I 'm not the kind of person who is afraid of letting a woman take charge professionally , personally — or sexually . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not the kind of person that talks about my problems — I 'd rather sort them out myself . |
| 7 | The wine , though Richard was not the kind of person whom the sommelier kept waiting , was not particularly good . |
| 8 | She was not the kind of person who was fun , but she was the kind of person that people trusted , and that was a fair trade to her . |
| 9 | I 'm not the kind of person who spends all their free time glued to the telly . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not nervous , ’ says Dolores , ‘ but I 'm just not the type of person who goes out and can say ( adopts hysterical Lita Ford persona , clenched fists raised to the sky etc . ) |
| 11 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 12 | Not the type of person to be Kirsty 's mother . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not the type of person to tell him straight out to go . ’ |
| 14 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 16 | ‘ He was not the sort of person to be involved in drugs . |
| 17 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 18 | Says another curator , ‘ Rusty may not have the vision to say , ‘ We need a Guido Reni at the National Gallery ’ he 's not the sort of person who could walk through the baroque galleries and realise they even need one , though if a curator went to him wanting to buy one , I think Rusty would certainly be supportive of the move , whereas Carter would basically have turned up his nose and said ‘ no ’ ’ . |
| 19 | I 'm not the sort of person who gets what they want and then starts longing for something else . |
| 20 | Unlike some of his old friends , she was not the sort of person to go stumbling helplessly into holes . |
| 21 | I mean I 'm not the sort of person who can sit down and watch telly all day , you know |
| 22 | become And I 'm not the sort of person to sit around willy nilly any way . |
| 23 | You really ought to know that I 'm not the sort of person who fails to meet deadlines in her work . ’ |
| 24 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 25 | ‘ Michael 's not the sort of person who wants you to be around all the time , ’ she said . |
| 26 | I 'm not the sort of person you think I am . ’ |
| 27 | He says he 's not the sort of person to bear malice against anyone . |
| 28 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 29 | And like I would n't sa , she 's not the sort of person who you 'd think oh you know I mean like |
| 30 | He is not the sort of person who sits on the sidelines giving instructions . |