Example sentences of "[verb] not for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 2 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 3 | He was looking not for a new policy for Britain , but for a political protege for himself , someone who would be more gracious and romantic than Chamberlain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |