Example sentences of "not [vb infin] it for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 2 | We do n't need it for the expansion of our race ; indeed , it 's inimical to orderly civilization . |
| 3 | ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really . |
| 4 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 5 | I said well in all fairness Paul , you ai n't actually bloody got , I said I do n't do it for the fun of it I said and I do n't like doing it but I see , he just sort of |
| 6 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
| 7 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
| 10 | I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world ! ’ she replied , smiling . |
| 12 | As for this weekend 's display , Gary would n't miss it for the world . |
| 13 | Michael says it 's ‘ very decent ’ of them ; Nick says he would n't miss it for the world . |
| 14 | My life has changed and I live around the horses and would n't change it for the world now . |
| 15 | I did n't say it for the applause . |