Example sentences of "[verb] that it was not for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 2 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 3 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 4 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 5 | The policewoman shot her a look which said that it was not for her to say so , even if she , herself , had been thinking it . |
| 6 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |