Example sentences of "for [pron] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say that we 'll approve every one , but obviously we know that if you introduce a general charge there will be people for whom you do not want it to affect unfairly . |
| 2 | Copies of prints from earlier sessions for which we do not have the negatives , can be processed , but are usually more expensive . |
| 3 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 4 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 5 | Some , when reaching their wedding day , may find it difficult to smile , feeling unhappily trapped , persuaded either by lover or parents into a marriage for which they do not feel ready . |
| 6 | This is despite the fact that it is the only universal non-contributory benefit payable to all mothers on behalf of their children , and thus guarantees mothers at least some income for which they do not have to ask their husbands or cohabitees . |
| 7 | Having accepted the fact that your body is a machine for which you do not have the manual , and that it is not like anyone else 's body , what can you do about it ? |
| 8 | At least by the eleventh century every king expected to recruit a part of his army by paying mercenaries , or from knights who received a fee not in land , but in cash ; though he did his best to make his great nobles provide contingents for which he did not have to pay , or ( at least in the twelfth century ) pay him in cash if they did not serve him in person . |
| 9 | The student should not assume facts contrary to those stated in the problem for the purpose of giving the examiner a piece of information for which he did not ask . |
| 10 | She was crying now , greedy for him again , desperate for something she did not understand . |
| 11 | Barbara knows all this , but nothing will deter her from blaming Ben for everything she does not like . ’ |
| 12 | Difficult though it would undoubtedly be for him I do not understand it to be said on his behalf that it would be impossible . |
| 13 | Why Harry felt sorry for him he did not know . |
| 14 | Some people ventured to say that Suor Eusebia was one of them , but as everybody had such a very high regard for her they did not pursue the matter further . |
| 15 | And how to account for it I do not know , unless indeed it was she who spoke . ’ |
| 16 | I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea . |
| 17 | For myself I do not care . |
| 18 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 19 | Grades are more to be blamed for what they do not do than for what they do do . |
| 20 | These chapters are comparatively less weighty , and are perhaps most valuable for what they do not say , if we remember the pressure for definitions and anathemas . |
| 21 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 22 | And he conceives a contempt for what he does not understand ; habit and custom appear bad in themselves , a kind of nescience of behaviour . |
| 23 | It is a sign of the times that Mr Franco 's plan is being praised more for what it did not do than what it did . |
| 24 | And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know , but pity yourself for what it did . |
| 25 | No longer would a viewer pay for what he/she did not watch or for a service which he/she did not use . |