Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] his [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise .
2 This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months .
3 " Many people in this country do not share his affection for France . "
4 Sometimes he would not leave his room for days on end .
5 In an old-style full committal hearing , Coun Garvey 's solicitor James Watson claimed the incident was accidental and said Teesside Magistrates Court should not commit his client for trial .
6 Innocent 's letters of the summer and autumn 1200 ( to all the princes of Germany , to Philip Augustus , to King John and to the duke of Brabant and his wife ) did not hide his preference for Otto .
7 The job has not soured his taste for milk , as he often drinks two pints a day and he still enjoys doing his round , which takes in some of Ulster 's most spectacular scenery around the Mourne Mountains .
8 But he was to find no lasting romance again and , as the years went by , it became clear that he had not lost his love for Gabrielle .
9 That did n't make his love for Sien any less true .
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