Example sentences of "[pron] not [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 2 | Men were wrong about Prince Richard ; women loved him not for his strength , but for his weakness , which was well hidden . |
| 3 | Then , almost assuming his mother 's shape , he observed that Tommaso 's broad back shifted in rhythm to Caterina 's movements , that he swivelled on his angled chair , sometimes on one leg , sometimes on two , to keep her not in his sights but outside them . |
| 4 | She would not have the heart to do it , were it not for his own good . |
| 5 | There would be literally no relationship between a man and his son-in-law were it not for his daughter , and so on . |
| 6 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 7 | Were it not for his defeat by Country Member at the same course in February , he would be half his present odds . |
| 8 | Greenaway rejects the conventional grammar of film , its reaction shots and implied points of view , but he replaces it not with his own idiom but with his slide library , though a film modelled on an art-historical lecture has no greater intrinsic claim to quality than one modelled on a promotional video , a newsreel or a travel brochure . |
| 9 | Is it not through his agency that anyone makes the Christian confession ‘ Jesus is Lord ’ ( 1 Cor. 12:3 ) and is born again ( John 3:5 ) ? |
| 10 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |