Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 32 | Something unfamiliar stirred in Elisabeth , a profound emotion in which painful longing — she knew not for what — was accompanied by anxiety . |
| 33 | You do n't for |
| 34 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 35 | ‘ After all , you do n't want me , do you , you have n't for years . ’ |
| 36 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 37 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 38 | The government guidance er in P G three makes it very clear now that it 's an issue we do have to address and if we do n't for land requirement . |
| 39 | His alternative is what he calls an ‘ appreciative ’ stance : ‘ These appreciative sentiments are easily summarized : we do not for a moment wish that we could rid ourselves of deviant phenomena . |
| 40 | These differ from college accommodation services in that they act not for the prospective tenant but on behalf of the landlords by pre-sifting applicants . |
| 41 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 42 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 43 | All babies need feeding and changing and there are not too many ways of doing it ; the range and subtlety of young babies ' gestures is restricted ( they do not for instance converse ) , and in response , mothers tend to simplify and exaggerate their own gestures . |
| 44 | He fought not for honour or glory but to put an end to the threat of Naggaroth for all time . |
| 45 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 46 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 47 | But the preponderance of evidence about the computer business shows that the IBM name no longer has its old magic … and it has n't for the past few years . |
| 48 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 49 | Jesus said he came not for such ‘ virtuous ’ people but to give hope to those who were aware of their need of God . |
| 50 | ‘ Those who founded it do not for one moment pretend to be neutral , ’ Lewis confessed . |
| 51 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 52 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 53 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 54 | Or I 'd make sure he did n't for much longer . ’ |
| 55 | Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities . |
| 56 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 57 | Now , it looked as if they were newly decorating so whether the water got into there or not , but it did n't look as if they were in the process of decorating so I hope it did n't for their sake . |
| 58 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 59 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 60 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |