Example sentences of "and [not/n't] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm playing for the fun I can get out of it for myself , and not for them , ’ said the five-times Wimbledon champion after a 7–5 , 6–2 defeat by Frenchman Olivier Delaitre in the Nice Open yesterday in his first relevant match of this year 's comeback . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both officials and politicians saw the system as an unwanted intrusion and not for them ( see Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 ; Gray and Jenkins , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Whatever you 've done you 've done for science and not for me personally , whether you see it that way or not . |
| 5 | I I I 've already said that I do n't accept that er the French are unlikely to ratify er I think rather the contrary but that remains finally for them er and not for me . |
| 6 | That was routine stuff and not for him . |
| 7 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 9 | And not for you , Billie . ’ |
| 10 | What you do n't seem to know is that I 'm working for Query and not for you . |
| 11 | But that is for the Mamur Zapt and not for you . |
| 12 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |