Example sentences of "[pron] not for [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 no its not for my husband cos my husband says you look nice whether I 've got make up on or whether I have n't got make up on so really
2 so its not for your man and its not for society and its not for
3 Men were wrong about Prince Richard ; women loved him not for his strength , but for his weakness , which was well hidden .
4 ‘ 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 . ’
5 They would look incongruous , like far-flung gouchos , were it not for their high-stepping Icelandic ponies .
6 They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting .
7 He has shown Matthew a great deal of kindness , and you have to admit that , were it not for my father 's offer of friendship , Matthew would be a very lonely soul .
8 Edwin , I would be utterly desolate were it not for my faithful companion here .
9 She would not have the heart to do it , were it not for his own good .
10 There would be literally no relationship between a man and his son-in-law were it not for his daughter , and so on .
11 Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden .
12 Were it not for his defeat by Country Member at the same course in February , he would be half his present odds .
13 You could be emperor of the universe by now , were it not for your habit of turning your hypercritical gaze inward instead of using it to devastate others .
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