Example sentences of "not for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , was it not , Ah ! was it not for thee , |
| 2 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 3 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 4 | It says : ‘ If I am not for myself , who will be for me ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'm begging for my family , not for myself . |
| 6 | I mind for Norman , of course , and for you and the children , but not for myself . ’ |
| 7 | Not for myself , ’ he added hastily , ‘ but for the widow with hungry mouths to feed , the boy who wants to become a scholar . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , it 's not for myself . ’ |
| 9 | I have to be very careful , not for myself only , it 's for everybody else , every other Kuwaiti . |
| 10 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 11 | But for some drivers the ability to cover inhospitable terrain can literally be a matter of life and death — if not for themselves , then for their livestock or their patients . |
| 12 | Not presents , not for themselves , it was the sensation of being given to , she was homesick for that . |
| 13 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 14 | In December the king told the Washington Post that the Iraqi leader was ‘ confident , determined to do his utmost , not for himself , but for the region and its future ’ . |
| 15 | That wretched man steals anything that 's of good quality that he can get his hands on — not for himself since they 're usually things that do n't fit him — he sells them to the second-hand clothes stalls on San Lorenzo market . ’ |
| 16 | Ever fair-spoken , Malekith said that he desired the kingship not for himself but in honour of the memory of his father . |
| 17 | The individual whose sexual needs and norms are dissonant with those of society as a whole will raise difficulties for others if not for himself . |
| 18 | The whole fountain of the Spirit is indeed his , but not for himself alone ; rather that he should shower it upon his followers . |
| 19 | He too was worried ; not for himself because he , as a prisoner-of-war , was protected by the Geneva Convention , but for the nuns and me and everyone else with whom he had come into contact . |
| 20 | Perhaps that would be enough for them , if not for himself . |
| 21 | No , Fernando did n't like those sort of games he was imagining , but not for himself — his emotions were untouchable . |
| 22 | It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece . |
| 23 | They would look incongruous , like far-flung gouchos , were it not for their high-stepping Icelandic ponies . |
| 24 | The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye . |
| 25 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 26 | Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade , personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen , clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine , but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard . |
| 27 | It was one of the tragedies of the Second Empire that Napoleon III and Eugénie who were fond , perhaps over-fond , parents whose joy lay in their child , should be remembered not for their family virtues but for their public ‘ vices ’ — real or supposed . |
| 28 | In January 1801 he wrote to Charles James Fox , the Leader of the Whig Opposition , enclosing the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads , and asking him to read Michael and The Brothers , not for their poetic merit but because they illustrate ‘ the weakening of the bonds of domestic feeling among the poor ’ . |
| 29 | If Waugh and Orwell did not exactly despise the complexities of Modernism , Joyce-style or Eliot-style , at least they recognised , and early , that such complexities were not for their times and not for them . |
| 30 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |