Example sentences of "[not/n't] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | My arbitrary decision to hang up gauze and let draught play on it , but not my decision what the result of that play would be . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're not my guests , ’ I told her . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ said Henry Tyler with every appearance of regret , ‘ That 's not my Department . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But that 's not my definition of the quality of love . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Fokine insisted that most of Petrushka was danced mime , explaining that the dances performed in the fairground were the only real ones : ‘ These were not my own work as such crowds would have danced like that any way . |
| 6 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 7 | ‘ The Air Djibouti manager is away — it 's not my department . |
| 8 | Straight away it was obvious it was not my bottle . |
| 9 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 10 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 11 | He said , it 's not my fault if people are stupid . |
| 12 | That 's not my way of doing it . |
| 13 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 14 | Mike Brearley , the subsequent England captain and a Cambridge graduate with a distinctly academic turn of mind , was revealing in his reasons for turning down the offer , which would have overturned the historical structure of international cricket : ‘ Money apart , Kerry Packer is not my style . |
| 15 | After all , I 've only lost my sight — not my brains . |
| 16 | I wish I had my woolly hat on , not my straw one . |
| 17 | ‘ Not my musicians , ’ Bodo said . |
| 18 | At present the whole thing is on guilt money : ‘ I 'm glad it 's not my kids . |
| 19 | Malik 's claim took his defence lawyer , Stephen Ferrarone by surprise : ‘ Not my idea of the best defence , believe me . |
| 20 | As one young woman I spoke to put it : ‘ I thought at least I 'll be going to a place where these people are not my parents so they wo n't be able to put a hand on me . ’ |
| 21 | In 1981 David Hockney scrawled ‘ This is not my work ’ across a drawing purporting to be Hockney 's ‘ Colourful head-dress ’ of 1963 . |
| 22 | Why should he , is the shrugged reaction — I do n't belong here , this is not my home . |
| 23 | We begin to understand Jesus ' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane , ‘ Not my will , but thine , be done ’ ( Luke 22.42 ) . |
| 24 | Maybe you 're not my dad , even . |
| 25 | I 'm not a bloody American , you know — rushing to a shrink is not my idea of a hobby or a good day out . |
| 26 | You 're not my parents . |
| 27 | You 're not my father . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're not my father ! |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not my fault . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not my feet day . |