Example sentences of "not for her " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She would have to exert her will and fight against the pain-consuming darkness , if not for her own sake , then for theirs . |
| 2 | Which , Dorothea had often thought , they probably were , and really , she had half-envied Alida , not for her independence but for the responsibility she had , and for the pride and satisfaction she was entitled to feel in her work . |
| 3 | She look my arm , not for her sake but for mine . |
| 4 | Sinead O'Connor should be congratulated for her stand ( what the hell does Bob Dylan do these days ? ) against church hypocrisy but not for her recent album which is , to be frank , boring . |
| 5 | And Clara , walking by her side and hearing these words , burst suddenly and at last into loud hysterical weeping , and as the tears flooded down her hot cheeks she knew that they were not for her father , but for the meanness and the lack of love , and for the fear that she would die in so ugly a hole , and so unloved . |
| 6 | Not for her granddaughter , but for Kate . |
| 7 | Not for her parties and discos . |
| 8 | Finally , he realized that what he really felt was fear : not for her safety , but fear that she might have gone out of his life . |
| 9 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 10 | Hawkins is a busy authorial presence in this Bildungsroman , which she dedicated to Henrietta Maria Bowdler [ q.v. ] , not for her own writings but as friend and editor of the scholar Elizabeth Smith [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | He saw that she was weeping , not for her father but for herself , for the child she had been . |
| 12 | Though we threaten her with a headline reading ‘ Real Labour candidates do n't eat muesli ’ she insists that it 's not for her own consumption . |
| 13 | Something that she would have grasped , if it were n't for her own stupidity . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it was n't for her looks , was it ? ’ said Melissa with a grin . |
| 15 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |