Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [not/n't] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | Having asked the question , he offered no personal answer : ‘ Like jesting Pilate , I stay not for an answer : though the question awaits our collective resolution ’ . |
| 3 | If the term subjection be used in its extreme sense I do not for a moment believe that any such solution exists . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not for a moment doubt the right and duty of the media to comment on sentences and criticise judges . |
| 5 | I no no I do n't for a start accept it . |
| 6 | There are ninety nine pupils , the total staff is one hundred , of course that does not for a moment mean that er , there is one member of staff attendant on each pupil at all times , and I do n't for a moment suggest that . |
| 7 | That 's routine , and I do n't for a minute expect there to be any complications . |
| 8 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 9 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 10 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 11 | I went , erm I have n't for a while , I said but I do very occasionally cos I he goes |
| 12 | ‘ I have not for a moment suggested that children should be removed from the care of their parents . |
| 13 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 14 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 15 | His alternative is what he calls an ‘ appreciative ’ stance : ‘ These appreciative sentiments are easily summarized : we do not for a moment wish that we could rid ourselves of deviant phenomena . |
| 16 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 17 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 18 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 19 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 20 | And sexual harassment towards a woman does , I think , confirm that in a way , as Suzy says , it does n't for a man . |