Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] him for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies .
2 It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up .
3 She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time .
4 The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie .
5 And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park .
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