Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 2 | He believed education should fit man for society , as well as equipping him with learning , hence he pressed not only for lessons in drawing , but also in French . |
| 3 | The historical legacy of women 's artistic practices must be acknowledged and researched not only for the sake of justice . |
| 4 | The agriculture that made this growing wealth possible was highly organised , although with considerable variations within Sussex : all men worked not just for themselves , but for a lord . |
| 5 | It called not only for an investigation of the sentencing powers and practice of the criminal courts , but of the sentencing process itself . |
| 6 | As she was seven months pregnant at the time , Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child . |
| 7 | Yet the players did not dally for long . |
| 8 | In determining an appropriate dividend yield , regard should be had not only for comparable public company yields but allowance should also be made for factors such as non-negotiability , dividend cover , asset backing etc . |
| 9 | He also mobilised the resources of Christian ritual ( again following in his father 's footsteps but going far beyond him ) in the royal and imperial consecrations staged not only for himself and his son but for Ermentrude and Richildis ; in the development of royal funerary cult at St-Denis and in the lavish endowment of liturgical commemorations of himself , his family and friends , at a number of churches ; and in the use of spiritual kinship , especially the godparental bond , in political dealings with neighbouring princes as a paradigm of beneficent authority . |
| 10 | I took , wait till I tell you come here , I I was gon na make Kelly and me sandwiches but I had n't enough for Dee and his girl and er I was n't gon na make tea for , for |
| 11 | In November Gorbachev for the first time conceded that Moscow stood not only for a ‘ non-aligned , independent , sovereign Afghanistan ’ but a ‘ neutral Afghanistan ’ . |