Example sentences of "[not/n't] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , was it not , Ah ! was it not for thee , |
| 2 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 3 | Caterers live in the real world , not for them exercise followed by exercise , because they do for real in peace what they would do in war and they would n't want to change that . |
| 4 | Not for them , the index-linked pension . |
| 5 | Not for them , the twilight appearance on Pebble Mill |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Not for them the worries of an investigative Panorama or Insight team of reporters . |
| 8 | Brahe complies , and they enter into a description of the accelerator and the experiment , the details of which are covered for the reader ( not for them ) by the engine noise : |
| 9 | This book is not for them . |
| 10 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 11 | Not for them chirpy whelk stall amateurism or cheerful under-achieving . |
| 12 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 13 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 14 | Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens , television and sleeping accommodation . |
| 15 | It is easy to understand the feeling of many working-class people that banks , with their imposing buildings and staff as well as their restricted opening hours , are simply not for them . |
| 16 | It was not for them but for the ruling CPP to decide what best promoted the goals Nkrumah outlined . |
| 17 | But that is not for them to decide ’ ( I , 60 ) . |
| 18 | Not for them our Western confidences : ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Above a pair are just abbing off : they 've decide it 's not for them today . |
| 21 | And — despite the fact that their portraits were largely drawn by monks — they were men in a distinctively lay tradition : not for them Gerald of Aurillac 's yearning for the cloister ; though they might put their sword to the service of the church , they wielded it just as often for secular purposes and to gain renown . |
| 22 | Not for them promotion . |
| 23 | By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them . |
| 24 | Not for them your ordinary household polishes and bleach — they use the latest industrial cleaning gear . |
| 25 | Not for them the sudden exhilaration of Crick and Watson on discovering the structure of DNA ( a rare thrill , even in the natural sciences ) . |
| 26 | By the end of the year both girls concluded that the nineteenth-century atmosphere of Rhydoldog was not for them , and left . |
| 27 | Both officials and politicians saw the system as an unwanted intrusion and not for them ( see Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 ; Gray and Jenkins , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 29 | Not for them the buoyancy , cost-effectiveness , fairness and progressiveness that ’ Fair Rates ’ offers to the British people . |
| 30 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |